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Comparative religion

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systematic comparison of the world's religions

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The nations of Europe have had the very same Christian religion, agreeing in the fundamental parts, varying a little in the ceremonies and in the subordinate doctrines. The whole of the polity and economy of every country in Europe has been derived from the same sources.
Edmund Burke, Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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Thus we arrive at the first criterium of religious beliefs. Undoubtedly there are secondary species within these two fundamental classes which, in their turn, are more or less incompatible with each other.[72] But the real characteristic of religious phenomena is that they always suppose a bipartite division of the whole universe, known and knowable, into two classes which embrace all that exists, but which…
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
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INTRODUCTION: Scientific Theology and the Comparative Study of Religions. I. The Sources and Nature of Religious Truth. II. Supernatural Beings, Good and Bad. III. The Soul: its Nature, Origin, and Destiny. IV. Sin and Suffering: Salvation and Redemption. V. Religious Practices. VI.
Ghazzali, Some religious and moral teachings of Al-Ghazzali
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