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The main design of the present Work is, as its title indicates, to exhibit an accurate, comprehensive, and impartial view of the "Faiths of the World". These are in themselves so numerous, intricate, and often obscure, that fully and satisfactorily to set forth their peculiar doctrines and principles, as well as their rites, ceremonies and customs, has been a task of extreme difficulty, requiring much laborious investigation and careful discrimination. ...
At the conceptual level religion and faith are almost identified. Spiritual doctrines and explanations are the products of man’s search for notions and definition. Our very psyche wants to grasp the recondite principles of the religious concepts and spiritual experiences. The work at hand gives a microscopic glimpse of mankind’s ever expanding awareness of the inner mind. It is encyclopaedic in the sense that a reader can use it most confidently as a ...