Contents
The books that tried to look at all of it at once. Every one of these is a period piece with the assumptions of its period — Frazer in particular is discredited as anthropology — but they founded the field and they are still the works people argue with.
The founding works
| Title | Credited to | Download |
|---|---|---|
| The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion | James George Frazer | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) | James George Frazer | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) | James George Frazer | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature | William James | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology | James Freeman Clarke | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| A Comparative View of Religions | Johannes Henricus Scholten; Francis T. (Francis Tucker) Washburn (tr.) | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| Sacred Books of the East | F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller (tr.); George Sale (tr.) | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
| India: What can it teach us?: A Course of Lectures Delivered before the… | F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller | EPUB · Kindle · Text |
- The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion — The one-volume abridgement of The Golden Bough. Start here rather than with the twelve-volume set.
- The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature — William James, 1902. Still the best book on religious experience as experience.
- Ten Great Religions: An Essay in Comparative Theology — James Freeman Clarke's comparative theology, 1871.
- Sacred Books of the East — Epiphanius Wilson's one-volume sampler of the Sacred Books of the East.
- India: What can it teach us?: A Course of Lectures Delivered before the… — Max Müller's Cambridge lectures — the man who edited the whole SBE series, explaining why.
Related
- Religious Texts — the rest of the shelf.
- The Reading Room — the library, and how to load these onto a device.
- E-readers and Kindle — getting these files onto a device.