Story of the world's worship, a complete, graphic and comparative history of the many strange beliefs, superstitious practices, domestic peculiarities, sacred writings, systems of philosophy, legends and traditions, customs and habits of mankind throughout the world, ancient and modern. This dark and mystic picture strikingly compared with the beauty and purity of revealed religion, the whole forming the fascinating story of the world's worship from the birth of man to the present, by Frank S. Dobbins .. ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams and Prof. Isaac Hall ... The whole profusely illustrated from authentic and trustworthy sources

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The instance Story of the world's worship, a complete, graphic and comparative history of the many strange beliefs, superstitious practices, domestic peculiarities, sacred writings, systems of philosophy, legends and traditions, customs and habits of mankind throughout the world, ancient and modern. This dark and mystic picture strikingly compared with the beauty and purity of revealed religion, the whole forming the fascinating story of the world's worship from the birth of man to the present, by Frank S. Dobbins .. ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams and Prof. Isaac Hall ... The whole profusely illustrated from authentic and trustworthy sources represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries.

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Story of the world's worship, a complete, graphic and comparative history of the many strange beliefs, superstitious practices, domestic peculiarities, sacred writings, systems of philosophy, legends and traditions, customs and habits of mankind throughout the world, ancient and modern. This dark and mystic picture strikingly compared with the beauty and purity of revealed religion, the whole forming the fascinating story of the world's worship from the birth of man to the present, by Frank S. Dobbins .. ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams and Prof. Isaac Hall ... The whole profusely illustrated from authentic and trustworthy sources

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• http://books.google.com/books?id=2f7WAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ViewAPI
• http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015012310085

Statement of responsibility

a complete, graphic and comparative history of the many strange beliefs, superstitious practices, domestic peculiarities, sacred writings, systems of philosophy, legends and traditions, customs and habits of mankind throughout the world, ancient and modern. This dark and mystic picture strikingly compared with the beauty and purity of revealed religion, the whole forming the fascinating story of the world's worship from the birth of man to the present, by Frank S. Dobbins .. ; assisted by Hon. S. Wells Williams and Prof. Isaac Hall ... The whole profusely illustrated from authentic and trustworthy sources

Instantiates

• Story of the world's worship

Publication

• Chicago, Dominion Co., 1901

Note

• Earlier ed. published under title: False gods; or, The idol-worship of the world
• New York ed. published under title: Error's chains: how forged and broken

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Chapter I. The world's first worship -- Chapter II. When came the many gods and idols -- Chapter III. Sacred and heathen traditions -- Chapter IV. The subject in a nutshell -- Chapter V. The land of the sphinx -- Chapter VI. The Chaldeans -- Chapter VII. The Jews -- Chapter VIII. Greece -- Chapter IX. Rome -- Chapter X. Our ancestors -- Chapter XI. India -- Chapter XII. Hindu temples, idols and worship -- Chapter XIII. Hindu sacred books, fairy stories and fireside tales -- Chapter XIV. Japan -- Chapter XV. Popular gods and shrines of Shintoism -- Chapter XVI. the dark continent -- Chapter XVII. The Aborigines of America -- Chapter XVIII. The islands of the seas -- Chapter XIX. The karens and their traditions -- Chapter XX. The fire-worshipers -- Chapter XXI. China and her philosophers -- Chapter XXII. The Taoist sacred books and gods -- Chapter XXIII. Confucius and the classics -- Chapter XXIV. Confucian temples and worship -- Chapter XXV. Home-life under Confucianism -- Chapter XXVI. Buddha the "light of Asia" -- Chapter XXVII. The Buddhist bible, the "three baskets", and its teachings -- Chapter XXVIII. The growth of Buddhism-the Buddhist order of Mendicants -- Chapter XXIX. India and Ceylon -- Chapter XXX. Burmah -- Chapter XXXI. Siam -- Chapter XXXII. Thibet -- Chapter XXXIII. China-continued -- Chapter XXXIV. Japan -- Chapter XXXV. Mohammedanism -- Chapter XXXVI. Mohmmedan mosques and worship -- Chapter XXXVII. Winning the world to the worship of the one God

Dimensions

25 cm

Extent

xxii, 33-785 pages

Lccn

03005591

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Media type code

• n

Other physical details

frontispiece, illustrations, plates

Record ID

99195314200001161

System control number

(OCoLC)5168069