Oriental religions and their relation to universal religion: China
by Johnson, Samuel
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About This Item
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1877. First Edition. cloth. Very good. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 975, [1]; full green cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; spine ends rubbed, upper hinge cracked, text clean and sound.Samuel Jonson (1822-1882) was a Transcendental Unitarian, rationalist preacher and accomplished writer and speaker. "The motive to this study, as he says, was neither theological nor controversial, but to show through the ethical and spiritual import of the older civilizations the unity of human experience and to do justice to the spiritual nature common to humanity that speaks in differing faiths." (Harvard Square Library) However, he had no direct experience with Eastern religion, and his magnum opus, Oriental religions and their relation to universal religion, depended entirely on secondary sources and imagination. He published his first book on the series, India, in 1872, China in 1877, and the final volume, on Persia, was published posthumously in 1885.
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- Bookseller
- Midnight Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37
- Title
- Oriental religions and their relation to universal religion: China
- Author
- Johnson, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- James R. Osgood and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1877
- Keywords
- Religion, Asia, China
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