SCHLEITER, FREDERICK. Religion and culture. *$2 Columbia univ. press 201
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For descriptive note see Annual for 1919.
“Dr Schleiter has given us a critique of method which not only challenges modern methods and theories but deliberately drives them all from the field, some more gently than others.... As a preparation for a methodology—a destruction of methods to make way for method—Dr Schleiter’s work deserves the serious attention of all workers in the field of origins, social and religious, and may well be the most significant work of recent years.” A. E. Haydon
+ Am J Theol 24:293 Ap ’20 850w
“On page after page the false assumptions, the blundering reasoning, and the erroneous conclusions that have hitherto characterized comparative religion are laid bare with a detachment of judgment and a wealth of erudition that make the book a model of criticism. Dr Schleiter has put out of action a good many of the heavy guns that were to batter the walls of the citadel of religion.”
+ Cath World 111:393 Je ’20 400w
“Dr Schleiter, though an acute critic, is not a lucid writer, and his work is critical rather than constructive.”
+ − Nature 105:451 Je 10 ’20 260w