Systematic comparison of the world's religions

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An army of red people behind a blue barrior bearing sparkling religious symbols attempting to quell a group of red devils bearing the word 'AIDS' and holding forks; an advertisement to use religions as a shield against AIDS by the Catholic Commision on AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.

L'antiquité expliquée, et représentée en figures / [Bernard de Montfaucon].

Faiths of man : a cyclopædia of religions / by Major-General J. G. R. Forlong.

A magic still dwells : comparative religion in the postmodern age / edited by Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray.

The history of all religions ... comprehending a series of researches explanatory of the opinions, customs, and representative worship in the churches. Which have been established from the beginning of time to the commencement of the Christian dispensation; the accomplishment of the prophecies of the person of Christ; incontrovertibly proving by the positive declarations of the prophets that he is the true Messiah ... / by John Bellamy.

Descriptio regni Japoniae cum quibusdam affinis materiae, ex variis auctoribus collecta. Et in ordinem redacta / per Bernhardus Varenius.

Dīn al-insān : bahth fī maʼahiyyat al-dīn wa-manshaʼ al-daʼfi al-dīnī / Firwās Sawāh.

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Faiths of man : a cyclopædia of religions / by Major-General J. G. R. Forlong.

A magic still dwells : comparative religion in the postmodern age / edited by Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray.

Descriptio regni Japoniae cum quibusdam affinis materiae, ex variis auctoribus collecta. Et in ordinem redacta / per Bernhardus Varenius.

Dīn al-insān : bahth fī maʼahiyyat al-dīn wa-manshaʼ al-daʼfi al-dīnī / Firwās Sawāh.