Stanislaw Piekarski Encyclopedia of beliefs Warsaw ca 1929 first edition Published by M. Arcta 439(3)s. o. contemporary p. bdb For. ca: 23.5x17 cm "The science called religious studies or comparative history of religions emerged as a self-contained branch of skill in the second half of the 19th century, combining the results of historical research, extended to social devices and cultural development, with the results of archaeological research, linguistics, archaeology, ethnography, and systematizing them according to certain philosophical concepts. The purpose of this work, as a dictionary, is to provide information and explanations in alphabetical order about topics that are the subject of religious studies. Thus, these are explanations of concepts, expressions, names, customs, institutions, produced by the religious life of mankind, information about people who have marked their influence on the formation and development of these concepts in the history of religion, and facts, important, in the historical development." |