James Hastings’ Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (vol. XII) devotes sixty pages to worship in various religions. The series of essays on worship are learned and informative, but in a real sense futile, in that there is no common definition of worship possible. The writers struggled as a result to find in a variety of religions something which is largely alien to them, in that the word worship has for us a Biblical context, whereas what is called worship in these