Transactions Of The Third International Congress For The History Of Religions

Author : International Congress for the History of Religions Rd
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330275856
Total Pages : 482 pages
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Download or read book Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions written by International Congress for the History of Religions Rd and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions, Vol. 2 I have been asked by the Organizing Committee to give you to-day some account of what has been accomplished during the last two or three years-since the last Congress in fact-in the history of the development of religious belief in Iran and India. I should myself have preferred to choose for discussion in this address some one point in the history of those beliefs. The attempt to deal with the whole subject must of necessity resolve itself more or less into a bibliographical list. And such lists are apt to be of interest mainly to those who hear themselves mentioned in them. To every one else the meagreness of the result it will be possible to lay before you, may seem little more than a confession of failure in a field of work so important and so vast. But obedience to orders is the first duty of one called to such a post as I have the honour, for the time, to fill; and I will do my best. And first as to Iran. I had applied for assistance on this part of the subject to the American scholar (so welcome at all our Congresses), who is an acknowledged master of it. Unfortunately Professor Williams Jackson is detained in New York. But he has been good enough to send some notes1 which have arrived just in time, and which I will now read to you. He says:- 'The field of Iran has continued to be worked by a small but devoted band of scholars, and has yielded a harvest worthy of their activity. 'First among the books which have been published since the Basel Congress, although bearing the date of that year, may be mentioned a memorial volume of A vesta, PahJavi, and Ancient Persian Studies in honour of the late Parsi High Priest, Dastur Pcshotanji Sanjana, of Bombay. In this book are contained sixteen different articles con- 1 These notes were hastily written and were not destined for publication ; but in order to facilitate the early appearance of this volume, Prof. Jackson has kindly sanctioned their inclusion here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.