Abstract

important institution, and primary historiographie source, which has been overlooked in contemporary histories of the nineteenth century study of religion. To illustrate the importance of periodical literature to such histories, major themes used by Eric Sharpe, in his Comparative Religion: A History, to characterise and analyse the nineteenth century study of religion, will be considered in light of periodical material surveyed. This paper is also meant to demonstrate that commonly held notions about the early study of religion, and about nineteenth century scientific theory and method, which currently play a significant part in ideological arguments about the place of religious truth in the study of religion,

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