Astrology and Religion, Among the Greeks, and Romans

Franz Cumont

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Pennsylvania, who, as Secretary of the American Committee, may be said to have called this book into existence, and to whom I take pleasure in dedicating the volume, as a mark of recognition of his own researches in the cognate field of babylonian-assyrian astrology.

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• Philosophie et théologie
• Comparative religion

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243616213
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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T is the purpose of these lectures del vered under the auspices of the A merican ommittee for ectures on the History of eligions to sum up the results of researches carried on by me for many years in thefield of ancient astrology and astral religion F or some facts set forth here in a summary fashion I can refer the reader in the details to a number of special ticles published in various pe o cals the proof of other assertions wi given in a larger work that I hope at some fut e date to publish on this same general theme My sincere thanks are due to Mr B B aker J of Oxford who has carried out the task of trans lating these lectures in so satisfactory a manner and I am also largely indebted to my friend Mr A nderson of hrist hu c who was kind J enough to under ake the revision of the manu script I also owe some valuable corrections to Prof Morris Jastrow of the University of

Pennsylvania who ecreta y of the A me can ommittee may be s d to have called t s book into existence and to whom I t e pleasure in dedi cating the volume as a mark of recognition of his own researches in the cognatfild of B abylonian A ssyrian astrology F Z L anuary

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A merican ectures on the History of are delivered under the auspices of the A Lectures on the Histtee for merican omm tory of eligions This ommittee was organised in for the purpose of instituting po ular cour ses in the History of eligions somewhat after the style of the Hibbert ectu es in Eng and to be delivered by the best schol s of Europ e and th s country in various cities such as B altimore B oston Brooklyn hicago ork phia and others The terms of association under which the exists are as follows The obj ect of this Association sha l be provide cours s of lect res on the history of to be d liver ed in various cities The A ssociation shall be composed of dele gates from the institutions agreeing to operate w th such additional members as may be hose by these delegates Thes delegates one from ea h institution

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with the addition members selected shall consti tute themselves a o ncil under the name of the A mittee for erican o on the HistoryLectu es

The ouncil sh all elect out of its number a h rman a Secretary and a Treasurer A left to thell matters of local detail sh all be operating institution under whose auspices the lectur es are to be delivered course of lectures on some religion phase of religion from an storical point of vie or on a subj ect germ ane to the study of religio s shall be deliver ed ann ally or at such intervals as may be fou d practicable in the cities represented by this A ssociation The ouncil shall be ch g d with the selection of th e lecturers sh all have cha ge of the funds sh all assign the time for the lectur es in each city and perform su h other functions may be necessary Pole ica subj ec s as well as polemics in the treatment of subj cts shall be positively e cluded The lectures sh all b e delivered in the various ci ties between the month s of ep tember and June The opyright of the lectures shall be the

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The compensation of the lecturer shall be fixed in each case by the ouncil The lecturer shall b e paid in instalments after each course until he sh l have received half of the entire compensation the rem ning half one h f shal b e p d to upon del very of the manuscript properly prep ared for the press and the second half on the publication of the volume le ss a deduction for corrections made by the author in the proofs The ommittee as now constituted is as foll ows Prof rawfor d H Toy hairman Lowe l ambridge M ass John P Peters Treasurer W ork ity Prof Morris Jastrow Secretary S Philadelphia President F rancis Brown U nion Theological e in y ork ity Prof ich ard olumbia University ork ity Prof obert F Harper University of cago hicago Prof Paul Haupt Johns Hopkins University B altimore Md Prof F W Hooper Brooklyn Institute of A ESciences Prof rts and W Hopkins ale U versity Haven onn Prof Edward nox Mitchell Hartford Theologi cal eminary Hartford onn President F K anders Washburn ollege Topeka Kan Prof