This Is A New Release Of The Original 1892 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1912 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1892 Edition.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1892 Edition.

Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766133524, 0766133540. The ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected with the religious system of China. This volume contains Parts IV and V (War against specters and Priesthood of animism) of Book II (On the soul and ancestral worship). Contents: Place of demonocracy and exorcism in the Taoist system; Antiquity of exorcism; Light and fire, fireworks, and noise; Shen-tu and Yuh-lei, peaches, tigers, ropes; Cock; Twigs and brooms; Exorcising processions; Weapons; Mirrors; Dogs and blood; Classical and other writings; Spells and charms; War against animal-demons; Exorcising therapeutics and medical charms; Sepulchral medicines and amulets; Evil averted or exorcised by means of substitutes or surrogates; Domonolatry; Miscellaneous practices against spectral evil; Use and disuse of names; Man an exorcist by nature, and on account of his learning, position, and virtue; Specter-seers; Historical and mythical specialists in exorcism; Wu-ism before and during the Han Period; Wu-ism after the Han Period; Sacrificing and exorcising Wu of the present time; Possessed mediums, exorcists and seers; Spirit-writing and other oracular work; Female Wu-ism of the present.

Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766133540, 0766133567.The ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected with the religious system of China. This volume contains Part III (The Grave, first half) of Book I (Disposal of the Dead). Contents: Genesis of the grave; Grave as the dwelling of the soul; Placing food and drink in the grave - sacrificing on the tombs - grave altars and grave temples; Placing valuables, requisites of life, animals etc. in the grave; Concerning large tombs, big Tumuli, and grave trees; On mourning customs; Fasting for the dead; Reaction against the waste of wealth in burying the dead; Concerning the sacrifice of human beings at burials, and usages connected therewith.

1912. The American Lectures on the History of Religions. The writer's objective is to exhibit his view of the primitive and fundamental element of Chinese religion and ethics. That view is based on independent research into the ancient literature of China and into the actual state of her religion. Confident that his view is correct it gives the book as a key to the study of Taoism and Confucianism. Contents: The Tao or Order of the Universe; The Tao of Man; Perfection, Holiness, or Divinity; Asceticism. Prolongation of Life. Immortality; Worship of the Universe; Social and Political Universism (1); Social and Political Universism (2); and Fung-Shui.

1912. This volume is the American Lectures on the History of Religions series of 1910-1911 and represents universism, a key to the study of Taoism and Confucianism. The object of the writer of this book is to exhibit his view of the primitive and fundamental element of Chinese religion and ethics. That view is based on independent research into the ancient literature of China and into the actual state of her religion. Contents: Tao or order of the universe; Tao of man; perfection, holiness, or divinity; asceticism, prolongation of life, immortality; worship of the universe; social and political universism; Fung-shui.

Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766133524, 0766133540. The ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected with the religious system of China. This volume contains Parts IV and V (War against specters and Priesthood of animism) of Book II (On the soul and ancestral worship). Contents: Place of demonocracy and exorcism in the Taoist system; Antiquity of exorcism; Light and fire, fireworks, and noise; Shen-tu and Yuh-lei, peaches, tigers, ropes; Cock; Twigs and brooms; Exorcising processions; Weapons; Mirrors; Dogs and blood; Classical and other writings; Spells and charms; War against animal-demons; Exorcising therapeutics and medical charms; Sepulchral medicines and amulets; Evil averted or exorcised by means of substitutes or surrogates; Domonolatry; Miscellaneous practices against spectral evil; Use and disuse of names; Man an exorcist by nature, and on account of his learning, position, and virtue; Specter-seers; Historical and mythical specialists in exorcism; Wu-ism before and during the Han Period; Wu-ism after the Han Period; Sacrificing and exorcising Wu of the present time; Possessed mediums, exorcists and seers; Spirit-writing and other oracular work; Female Wu-ism of the present.

Other volumes in this set include ISBN number(s): 0766133524, 0766133567. The ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected with the religious system of China. This volume contains Part I (Soul in philosophy and folk-conception) of Book II (On the soul and ancestral worship). Contents: Psychological philosophy; Cosmo-psychological philosophy, and Taoism; On the multiplicity or divisibility of the souls of man; On the parts of the body in which the soul specially dwells; Animistic ideas as suggested by shadows; On disease of the soul, its debility and derangements; On absence of the soul from living man; On reanimation after death; On the reincarnation of souls through birth; On Zoanthropy; On the descent of men from animals; On plant-spirits; On the animation of lifeless matter; On food and medicines prepared from animals and men; On apparitions, and their influence upon the fate of man; On retributive justice exercised by spirits.

1912. This volume is the American Lectures on the History of Religions series of 1910-1911 and represents universism, a key to the study of Taoism and Confucianism. The object of the writer of this book is to exhibit his view of the primitive and fundamental element of Chinese religion and ethics. That view is based on independent research into the ancient literature of China and into the actual state of her religion. Contents: Tao or order of the universe; Tao of man; perfection, holiness, or divinity; asceticism, prolongation of life, immortality; worship of the universe; social and political universism; Fung-shui.

1912. The American Lectures on the History of Religions. The writer's objective is to exhibit his view of the primitive and fundamental element of Chinese religion and ethics. That view is based on independent research into the ancient literature of China and into the actual state of her religion. Confident that his view is correct it gives the book as a key to the study of Taoism and Confucianism. Contents: The Tao or Order of the Universe; The Tao of Man; Perfection, Holiness, or Divinity; Asceticism. Prolongation of Life. Immortality; Worship of the Universe; Social and Political Universism (1); Social and Political Universism (2); and Fung-Shui.

1912. The American Lectures on the History of Religions. The writer's objective is to exhibit his view of the primitive and fundamental element of Chinese religion and ethics. That view is based on independent research into the ancient literature of China and into the actual state of her religion. Confident that his view is correct it gives the book as a key to the study of Taoism and Confucianism. Contents: The Tao or Order of the Universe; The Tao of Man; Perfection, Holiness, or Divinity; Asceticism. Prolongation of Life. Immortality; Worship of the Universe; Social and Political Universism (1); Social and Political Universism (2); and Fung-Shui.

The ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected with the religious system of China. This volume contains Part III (The Grave, first half) of Book I (Disposal of the Dead). Contents: Genesis of the grave; Grave as the dwelling of the soul; Placing food and drink in the grave - sacrificing on the tombs - grave altars and grave temples; Placing valuables, requisites of life, animals etc. in the grave; Concerning large tombs, big Tumuli, and grave trees; On mourning customs; Fasting for the dead; Reaction against the waste of wealth in burying the dead; Concerning the sacrifice of human beings at burials, and usages connected therewith.

The ancient forms, evolution, history and present aspect, manners, customs and social institutions connected with the religious system of China. This volume contains Part I (Soul in philosophy and folk-conception) of Book II (On the soul and ancestral worship). Contents: Psychological philosophy; Cosmo-psychological philosophy, and Taoism; On the multiplicity or divisibility of the souls of man; On the parts of the body in which the soul specially dwells; Animistic ideas as suggested by shadows; On disease of the soul, its debility and derangements; On absence of the soul from living man; On reanimation after death; On the reincarnation of souls through birth; On Zoanthropy; On the descent of men from animals; On plant-spirits; On the animation of lifeless matter; On food and medicines prepared from animals and men; On apparitions, and their influence upon the fate of man; On retributive justice exercised by spirits.

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This volume is the American Lectures on the History of Religions series of 1910-1911 and represents universism, a key to the study of Taoism and Confucianism. The object of the writer of this book is to exhibit his view of the primitive and fundamental element of Chinese religion and ethics. That view is based on independent research into the ancient literature of China and into the actual state of her religion. Contents: Tao or order of the universe; Tao of man; perfection, holiness, or divinity; asceticism, prolongation of life, immortality; worship of the universe; social and political universism; Fung-shui.