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This review discusses Arvind-Pal S. Mandair's Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation (hereafter RSW), published in 2009 by Columbia University Press.

The history of religion, like some other social sciences, is difficult to define precisely; a historical phenomenology & a historical typology both have weaknesses. Primitive, archaic, historical, & modern religions display significant differences; Third World religions are unique in being products of societies that passed directly from archaic culture to modern civilization through colonialization. Several examples are presented of religious phenomena that require an interdisciplinary approach. Bourgeois society has deprived religion of the function of legitimizing social & political behavior, but it remains a source of meaning & strongly influences modernization processes, taking the form of messianic movements that seek either national unity or the abolition of SC society. W. H. Stoddard.

The science of history in the nineteenth century / William Milligan Sloane -- The conception and methods of history / James Harvey Robinson -- The expansion of Greek history / John Pentland Mahaffy -- Problems in Roman history / Ettore Pais -- A general survey of the history of Asia, with special reference to China and the Far East / Henri Cordier -- Historical development and the present character of the science of history / Karl Gotthart Lamprecht -- The present problems of medieval history / George Burton Adams -- The place of modern history in the perspective of knowledge / John B. Bury -- Historical synthesis / Charles W. Colby -- The relation of American history to other fields of historical study / Edward Gaylord Bourne -- Problems in American history / Frederick Jackson Turner -- Supplementary Papers -- Economic history in relation to kindred sciences / Johannes Evast Conrad -- The present problems in the economic interpretation of history / Simon Nelson Patten -- Bibliography: department of history -- History of law / Emlin McClain -- Characteristics of common law / Nathan Abbott -- The relations of Roman law to the other historical studies / William Hepburn Buckler -- Problems of Roman legal history / Munroe Smith -- The history of the common law / Simeon Eben Baldwin -- The problems of to-day for the history of the common law / John Henry Wigmore -- The new Japanese civil code, as material for the study of comparative jurisprudence / Nobushige Hozumi -- The latest organization of popular suffrage / Alfred Nerincx -- References suggested on the history of law -- Bibliography on the history of law -- Chairman's address / William Eliot Griffis -- The history of religions in the nineteenth century / George Foot Moore -- Fundamental conceptions and methods of the history of religion / Nathaniel Schmidt -- The relations of the religions of ancient India to the science of religion / Hermann Oldenberg -- Brahmanical riddles and the origin of theosophy / Maurice Bloomfield -- Short paper -- The progress of Islamic science in the last three decades / Ignaz Goldziher -- The problems of Muhammadanism / Duncan Black Macdonald -- Old Testament science / James Frederick McCurdy -- The relations of the Old Testament science to the allied departments and to science in general / Karl Ferdinand Reinhard Budde -- Chairman's address / Andrew C. Zenos -- The relations of New Testament science to kindred sciences / Benjamin Wisner Bacon -- The present problems of New Testament study / Ernest DeWitt Burton -- The relations between ecclesiastical and general history / Karl Gustav Adolph Harnack -- The progress of ecclesiastical history, especially ancient, during the nineteenth century / Jean Réville -- Supplementary paper -- Bibliography: history of religion. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The article examines the problems of developing research skills among young historians in connection with the problems of modern historical science and the legacy of Soviet historiography. The author assigns an important role in this to qualitatively new methods in historical science, primarily oral history.

Cet article porte sur la question des «objets de l'histoire des religions » . Bien qu'il existe au sein des départements d'histoire de nombreuses sortes d'historiens spécialistes d'histoire économique, sociale, militaire, etc., on n'y trouve jamais des historiens des religions. Comment expliquer ce fait ? Une réponse possible est que les spécialistes de différentes religions envisagent leurs «objets » comme appartenant exclusivement à leur sous discipline et non au champ plus large dont ils participent. Une deuxième raison peut être le fait que nombre d'historiens des religions utilisent des termes anhistoriques tels que «le sacré » ou «religions abrahamiques » . Cet article conclut que s'il doit y avoir des objets universellement reconnus, ceux-ci doivent être de l'ordre du quotidien.