Ritual and belief: Studies in the history of religion

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature

William James

The work is a scholarly series of twenty lectures that treat religion as a psychological phenomenon rather…

Studies in Literature and History

Sir Alfred C. Lyall

The work is a scholarly survey that treats the art of English letter‑writing as a crossroads of literature,…

Primitive culture, vol. 1 (of 2): Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom

Edward B. Tylor

Edward Burnett Tylor’s *Primitive Culture* is a scholarly survey that expands the scope of his earlier…

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Émile Durkheim

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 03 of 12)

James George Frazer

The work is a scholarly treatise that expands the “taboo” chapter of Frazer’s original *Golden Bough*,…

Primitive culture, vol. 2 (of 2): Researches into the development of mythology, philosophy, religion, language, art, and custom

Edward B. Tylor

This volume is the second part of Edward Burnett Tylor’s extensive comparative study of primitive culture, in…