[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908) › c4 # The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c4: Announcement The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c4 - **Language:** English ### Announcement ### [c4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.1) THE American Lectures on the History of Religions are delivered under the auspices of the American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions. This Committee was organised in 1892, for the purpose of instituting “popular courses in the History of Religions, somewhat after the style of the Hibbert Lectures in England, to be delivered annually by the best scholars of Europe and this country, in various cities, such as Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and others.” ### [c4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.2) The terms of association under which the Committee exist are as follows: ### [c4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.3) 1. The object of this Association shall be to provide courses of lectures on the history of religions, to be delivered in various cities. ### [c4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.4) 2. The Association shall be composed of delegates from Institutions agreeing to co-operate, or from Local Boards organised where such co-operation is not possible. ### [c4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.5) 3. These delegates—one from each Institution or myth and ceremony. The reader of these pages will, I hope, learn to his satisfaction how the religion of the Veda rests upon a prehistoric foundation which is largely nature myth; how it continues in the Rig-Veda hymns as hieratic ritual worship of polytheistic gods; how this religion grew more and more formal and mechanical in the Yajur-Vedas and Brāhmaṇas, until it was practically abandoned; how and when arose the germs of higher religious thought; and, finally, how the motives and principles that underlie this entire chain of mental events landed Hindu thought, at a comparatively early period, in the pantheistic and pessimistic religion of the Upanishads which it has never again abandoned. ### [c4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.6) MAURICE BLOOMFIELD. ### [c4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.7) JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE, \*April\*, 1907. ### [c4.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.9) THE American Lectures on the History of Religions are delivered under the auspices of the American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions. This Committee was organised in 1892, for the purpose of instituting "popular courses in the History of Religions, somewhat after the style of the Hibbert Lectures in England, to be delivered annually by the best scholars of Europe and this country, in various cities, such as Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and others." ### [c4.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.10) The terms of association under which the Committee exist are as follows: ### [c4.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.11) 1. The object of this Association shall be to provide courses of lectures on the history of religions, to be delivered in various cities. ### [c4.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.12) 2. The Association shall be composed of delegates from Institutions agreeing to co-operate, or from Local Boards organised where such co-operation is not possible. ### [c4.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.13) 3. These delegates—one from each Institution or Local Board—shall constitute themselves a Council under the name of the "American Committee for Lectures on the History of Religions." ### [c4.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.14) 4. The Council shall elect out of its number a Chairman, a Secretary, and a Treasurer. ### [c4.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.15) 5. All matters of local detail shall be left to the Institutions or Local Boards, under whose auspices the lectures are to be delivered. ### [c4.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.16) 6. A course of lectures on some religion, or phase of religion, from an historical point of view, or on a subject germane to the study of religions, shall be delivered annually, or at such intervals as may be found practicable, in the different cities represented by this Association. ### [c4.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.17) 7. The Council (\*a\*) shall be charged with the selection of the lecturers, (\*b\*) shall have charge of the funds, (\*c\*) shall assign the time for the lectures in each city, and perform such other functions as may be necessary. ### [c4.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.18) 8. Polemical subjects, as well as polemics in the treatment of subjects, shall be positively excluded. ### [c4.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.19) 9. The lecturer shall be chosen by the Council at least ten months before the date fixed for the course of lectures. ### [c4.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.20) 10. The lectures shall be delivered in the various cities between the months of September and June. ### [c4.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.21) 11. The copyright of the lectures shall be the property of the Association. ### [c4.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.22) 12. One-half of the lecturer's compensation shall be paid at the completion of the entire course and the second half upon the publication of the lectures. ### [c4.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.23) 13. The compensation to the lecturer shall be fixed in each case by the Council. ### [c4.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.24) 14. The lecturer is not to deliver elsewhere any of the lectures for which he is engaged by the Committee, except with the sanction of the Committee. ### [c4.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.25) The Committee as now constituted is as follows: Prof. Crawford H. Toy, Chairman, 7 Lowell St., Cambridge, Mass.; Rev. Dr. John P. Peters, Treasurer, 225 West 99th St., New York; Prof. Morris Jastrow, Jr., Secretary, 248 South 23d St., Philadelphia, Pa.; Prof. Francis Brown, Union Theological Seminary, New York; Prof. Richard Gottheil, Columbia University, New York; Prof. R. F. Harper, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.; Prof. Paul Haupt, 2511 Madison Avenue, Baltimore, Md.; Prof. F. W. Hooper, Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Prof. E. W. Hopkins, New Haven, Conn.; Prof. Edward Knox Mitchell, Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford, Conn.; Prof. George F. Moore, Cambridge, Mass.; Rev. F. K. Sanders, Boston, Mass.; Pres. F. C. Southworth, Meadville Theological Seminary, Meadville, Pa. ### [c4.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.26) The lecturers in the course of American Lectures on the History of Religions and the titles of their volumes are as follows: ### [c4.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.27) 1894–1895—Prof. T. W. Rhys-Davids, Ph. D.—Buddhism. ### [c4.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.28) 1896–1897—Prof. Daniel G. Brinton, M.D., LL.D.—Religion of Primitive Peoples. ### [c4.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.29) 1897–1898—Rev. Prof. T. K. Cheyne, D.D.—Jewish Religious Life after the Exile. ### [c4.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.30) 1898–1899—Prof. Karl Budde, D.D.—Religion of Israel to the Exile. ### [c4.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.31) 1904–1905—Prof. Georg Steindorff, Ph.D.—The Religion of the Ancient Egyptians. ### [c4.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.32) 1905–1906—Prof. George William Knox, D. D., LL. D.—The Development of Religion in Japan. ### [c4.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.33) The present course of lectures, the seventh in the series, was delivered by Professor Maurice Bloomfield, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology at the Johns Hopkins University, and one of the leading authorities on Vedic Literature. His latest work, a Concordance of the Vedic hymns and prayer formulæ, covering 1100 pages, the embodiment of a life’s study, published as Vol. 10 of the Harvard Oriental Series, will ensure Professor Bloomfield a permanent place in the history of Vedic studies. Besides this he has edited from the manuscripts the Vedic ritual book, known as the Kauçika-Sutra; published a translation of the Hymns of the Atharva-Veda, included in Professor Max Müller’s Sacred Books of the East (Oxford, 1897); written a volume on the Literature and History of the Atharva-Veda, entitled: "The Atharva-Veda and the Gopatha-Brahmana" (Strassburg, 1889); and edited, in collaboration with Professor Richard Garbe of Tübingen, a chromophotographic reproduction of the unique birch-bark manuscript of the Kashmirian Atharva-Veda (3 vols., Baltimore, 1901). He has also contributed to the technical journals of this country and Europe numerous papers on linguistic, mythological, and ethnological topics in general, in addition to a large number of contributions on the interpretation, textual restoration, and religion of the Veda in particular. ### [c4.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.34) The lectures in this course were delivered before the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Union Theological Seminary, New York; Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn; Drexel Institute, Philadelphia; Meadville Theological Seminary, Meadville; University of Chicago, Chicago; and Hartford Theological Seminary, Hartford. ### [c4.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.35) .John P. Peters, / C. H. Toy, / Morris Jastrow, \*Committee on Publication.\* ### [c4.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.36) January, 1908. ### [c4.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4.37) This image contains a blank page with no text or illustrations. ## Linked texts (2) - [Kauśikasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.kausika) — Kauśika, Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c4) · Pramāṇa