ABSTRACT
Every religion has its own previous history and is to a certain extent a 'syncretism'. Egyptian, and similarly Greek, religion arose from a large number of local religions. In ancient Egypt this process of amalgamation had set in at a very early period, and proceeded very deliberately. 'Transposition', then, is the variation of the significance of any phenomenon, occurring in the dynamic of religions, while its form remains quite unaltered. The dynamic of religions, further, is displayed as mission. This may in the first place be completely unconscious, and merely a reciprocal influence of religions which is the outcome of local proximity, cultural interchanges, and so on. The great mission religions, accordingly, are the 'world religions' of Buddhism, Islam and Christianity. Of these three, again, Islam is at present the typical missionary religion because it takes the dynamic power of its faith to be wholly a matter of course: conquest, then, lies in the very essence of Islam.
