Book Description: This book, although it attempts a broad and inclusive treatment of religion, and in that sense is a text, can best be regarded as a statement of the issues which I think are most salient in the vast literature on religion. Major themes are - The Anatomy of Religion: The Fundamental pattern, the four major types, and the Thirteen Regional Traditions; The Goals of Religion: Ritual, Myth, and the Transformations of State; The Functions of Religion: Relations among Cause, Intention, and Effect; The processes of Religion: Origins, the Ritual Process, History, and Evolution.