GREAT RELIGIONS

OF THE

WORLD

BY HERBERT A. GILES, LL.D.; T. W. RHYS
DAVIDS, LL D., Ph D.; OSKAR MANN; SIR
A. C. LYALL, K.C B, G.C.I.E.; D. MENANT;
SIR LEPEL GRIFFIN, K.C.S.I.; FREDERIC
HARRISON; E. DENISON ROSS; THE REV.
M. GASTER, Ph.D.; THE REV. WASHINGTON
GLADDEN, D.D., LL.D.; CARDINAL GIBBONS

Copyright, 1900, 1901, by THE NORTH AMERICAN Review PUBLISHING CO.

All rights reserved.

September, 1901.

CONTENTS

CONFUCIANISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
BY HERBERT A. GILES, LL.D., PROFESSOR OF
CHINESE IN CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
BUDDHISM. BY T. W. RHYS DAVIDS, LL.D., PH.D.,
PROFESSOR OF PALI AND BUDDHIST LITERA-
TURE IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
MOHAMMEDANISM IN THE NINETEENTH

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3

33

CEN-

TURY. BY OSKAR MANN, ORIENTALIST IN THE
ROYAL LIBRARY, BERLIN

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BRAHMINISM. BY SIR A. C. LYALL, K.C.B., G.C.I.E.,
MEMBER OF COUNCIL OF THE SECRETARY OF
STATE FOR INDIA
ZOROASTRIANISM AND THE PARSIS. BY D. ME
NANT, AUTHOR OF HISTORY OF THE PARSIS

SIKHISM AND THE SIKHS. BY SIR LEPEL GRIFFIN,

K.C.S.I. . .

POSITIVISM: ITS POSITION, AIMS, AND IDEALS.
BY FREDERIC HARRISON

BĀBISM. BY E. DENISON ROSS, PROFESSOR OF PER-

SIAN IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON

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81

109

139

167

JEWS AND JUDAISM IN THE NINETEENTH CEN-
TURY. BY THE REV. M. GASTER, PH.D., CHIEF
RABBI OF THE SEPHARDI COMMUNITIES OF ENG-
LAND . .

THE OUTLOOK FOR CHRISTIANITY. BY THE REV.
WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D., LL.D.

CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY. BY HIS EMINENCE, CAR-

DINAL GIBBONS

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CONFUCIANISM IN THE NINE

TEENTH CENTURY