Shaw, Mark Revell Sadler2022-05-062022-05-061920https://hdl.handle.net/2144/44374[INTRODUCTORY] Nothing is clearer to the mind of a person who undertakes a study of the social customs and teachings of any people than the fact that the sources of their social institutions are embedded In their religious conceptions, as the roots of an oak are embedded In the soil which gives It nourishment. This la especially true of the races of the orient, for the eastern mine has never yet drawn the distinction between things secular and things religious that to a certain degree now prevails among western peoples. No sooner does one begin the study of their beliefs concerning the relations of man to man than he finds himself engulfed in their doctrines of God, of prayer—man’s relation to God,—of the soul and the future life, as well as their theories regarding the universe.en-USNo known copyright restrictionshttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/Humanities and religionThesis/Dissertation