Search Results: the origins and history of religions by murphy john

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1949.. 1st ed. "Dr Murphy believes that the great founders of the study of Comparative Religion have emphasised theory at the expense of fact and therefore he has preferred to adopt a method of comparison which can be called neither that of Common Feature nor Historical, but Cultural, by which he arranges the material in a series of Five Religious Horizons - Primitive, Animistic, Agricultural, Civilised and Prophetic." Pp. 7/454, name to fep, old newpaper review attached to fep, uneven toning to endpapers. Dark blue cloth, gilt title to spine, d/w has sunning to spine and small chippings. G+/G+.

Manchester: Manchester University Press. 453pp hardback, blue cloth gilt with the bookplate of the anthropologist E O James, ex-academic library with usual stamps and labels, scattered spotting some corners bumped . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1949.

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; vii, 453 pages 22 cm. Subjects; Religions History. Education. English literature; religion. Religious writings.