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This book is offered as an aid to the disinterested study of religion. It is offered, that is to say, to those who are certainly interested in religion and religions, but whose first aim is to seek knowledge and understanding. Of course, it may well be that the reader’s ultimate aim is to discover or formulate beliefs—to come to a view of what it is that one does believe or what one might believe. However, the assumption of the editors is that understanding is not a barrier to belief: indeed, sometimes it is quite the reverse. It may pose problems for certain specific beliefs, just as an under­standing of fairly elementary principles of the working of the Solar System will prove to be an obstacle to the belief that the earth is flat, or acquaintance with foreigners may change one’s belief that all strangers are to be feared. But in each case the knowledge or understanding does not simply negate beliefs, it gives rise to new beliefs—that the earth is round, or that at least some strangers are to be welcomed. Inevitably a single-volume work cannot be com­pletely comprehensive in its range of topics and there has been selectivity based on general as well as specific principles. The general divisions are indicated in the contents list. The more specific principles operating are of three types.

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