[Transcriber's Note: Italic text is represented by _underscores_. Small capitals in the original have been converted to all capitals. Footnotes have been moved to the end.] Religions Ancient and Modern THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT SCANDINAVIA RELIGIONS: ANCIENT AND MODERN. ANIMISM. By EDWARD CLODD, Author of _The Story of Creation_. PANTHEISM. By JAMES ALLANSON PICTON, Author of _The Religion of the Universe_. THE RELIGIONS OF ANCIENT CHINA. By Professor GILES, LL.D., Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge. THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT GREECE. By JANE HARRISON, Lecturer at Newnham College, Cambridge, Author of _Prolegomena to Study of Greek Religion_. ISLAM. By AMEER ALI SYED, M.A., C.I.E., late of H.M.'s High Court of Judicature in Bengal, Author of _The Spirit of Islam_ and _The Ethics of Islam_. MAGIC AND FETISHISM. By Dr. A. C. HADDON, F.R.S., Lecturer on Ethnology at Cambridge University. THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT. By Professor W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE, F.R.S. THE RELIGION OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA. By THEOPHILUS G. PINCHES, late of the British Museum. EARLY BUDDHISM. By Professor RHYS DAVIDS, LL.D., late Secretary of The Royal Asiatic Society. HINDUISM. By Dr. L. D. BARNETT, of the Department of Oriental Printed Books and MSS., British Museum. SCANDINAVIAN RELIGION. By WILLIAM A. CRAIGIE, Joint Editor of the _Oxford English Dictionary_. CELTIC RELIGION. By Professor ANWYL, Professor of Welsh at University College, Aberystwyth. THE MYTHOLOGY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. By CHARLES SQUIRE, Author of _The Mythology of the British Islands_. JUDAISM. By ISRAEL ABRAHAMS, Lecturer in Talmudic Literature in Cambridge University, Author of _Jewish Life in the Middle Ages_. THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT ROME. By CYRIL BAILEY, M.A. SHINTO, THE ANCIENT RELIGION OF JAPAN. By W. G. ASTON, C.M.G. THE MYTHOLOGIES OF ANCIENT MEXICO AND PERU. By LEWIS SPENCE, M.A. EARLY CHRISTIANITY. By S. B. SLACK, Professor at McGill University. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ORIGIN AND NATURE OF RELIGION. By Professor J. H. LEUBA. THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT PALESTINE. By STANLEY A. COOK. THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT SCANDINAVIA By W. A. CRAIGIE, M.A. TAYLORIAN LECTURER IN THE SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES, OXFORD. AUTHOR OF 'SCANDINAVIAN FOLK-LORE' LONDON CONSTABLE & COMPANY LTD 10 ORANGE STREET LEICESTER SQUARE 1914 FOREWORD