The complete online text of The Making of Religion by Andrew Lang.

More than any other British writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, Andrew Lang successfully championed the fairy tale as appropriate reading material for children. This astonishingly productive man of letters influenced children's literatur...

For more than thirty-five years, from 1875 to 1912, Andrew Lang's essays, reviews, and editorial leaders shaped the opinions and influenced the tastes of the reading public of England and the United States. He was a prolific and facile writer who was alw...

Andrew Lang was "the greatest bookman of our age, and after [Robert Louis] Stevenson, the last great man of letters of the old Scottish tradition," affirms George Gordon in The Dictionary of National Biography. A confirmed polymath and gifted polyglot, i...

Religious issues in the public schools can be handled fairly if communities work together using the Three Rs Project program to set schools' religious policies. The program emphasizes protection of religious freedom, parental responsibility, and respectful debate of issues. While some conservatives support a...

Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. ROY A. RAPPAPORT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999; 535 pp. Reviewed by DOUG DALTON Longwood College His book was first accepted for publication in 1982, but Rappaport decided to delay publishing this volume to...