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The religions of China. Confucianism and Tâoism described and compared with Christianity

Confucianism and Tâoism described and compared with Christianity

Also known as The religions of China

by James Legge

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

xi, 308 p. ; 20 cm "Spring lecture of the Presbyterian church of England for 1880; delivered in the college, Guilford street, London."

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Asian esoteric and internal traditions.

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive matched “Taoism”. Retained metadata contains “Taoism” in the title, “Taoism” in the subtitle, “Taoism” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • Taoism· via Internet Archive
    • Taoism· in title
    • Taoism· in subtitle
    • Taoism· in subject
    • Taoism· in edition title
    • Taoism· in edition subtitle

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

2 editions cataloged here.

The religions of China

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1881-01-01T00:00:00ZNew York : C. Scribner's sonsEnglishPublic digitized item

Confucianism and Tâoism described and compared with Christianity

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1880-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : Hodder and Stoughton; London, Hodder and StoughtonEnglishPublic digitized item

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Internet Archive
  • Contributing institution: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana
  • Scanner: scribe2.nj.archive.org
  • Scanner: station66.cebu.archive.org
  • Scanner: uoft2
Catalog id
internet-archive:religionsofchina00legg
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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