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The modern reader's guide to religions. Cover Image Book Book

The modern reader's guide to religions.

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  • Physical Description: xi, 620 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Barnes & Noble, [1964]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: p. 587-597.
Formatted Contents Note:
What religion is: a general view -- The divine addresses of man -- Man listening -- Religious responses -- Conclusion -- The religion of modern primitive man -- The materials -- Primitive cultures -- Theories of religious origin -- Prehistoric man -- Paleolithic man -- Mesolithic man -- Neolithic man -- Egyptian religion -- Egyptian religion: it's conditions -- Egyptian history -- Egyptian rite -- Myth and magic -- Creation myths -- Morals and magic -- Babylonian religion -- Myths -- Babylonian myth -- People and king -- Divination and magic -- Law -- Greek religion -- Configuration of force -- The Greek address -- Olympian and Chthonian gods -- The public use of the Olympian gods -- The mysteries -- Philosophy -- Roman religion -- Cycle and line -- Three failures of myth -- Celtic myth -- Scandinavian myth -- Aztec myth.
Hebrew religion, I -- The Hebrews -- The discovery of Jehovah -- Myth into history -- Hebrew religion, II -- Kingship -- The prophets -- What a prophet is -- Christianity, I -- The world -- The life -- The teaching -- Eschatology -- Christianity, II -- The early church -- Paul -- Conclusion -- Islam -- Mohammed's world -- Mohammed's career -- The Koran -- Tradition -- Mysticism -- Conclusion -- Zoroastrianism -- Background -- Zoroaster -- Zoroastrian tradition -- Mithraism and Manicheism -- Hinduism, I -- Geography and history -- Hindu teaching -- Hindu scripture -- Hinduism, II -- The god's arrive -- The god's withdraw -- The god's return -- Buddhism, I -- The life and the illumination -- The teaching: new and old -- Buddhism, II -- Buddhist tradition -- Hinayana -- Mahayana -- Tantrism -- Chinese and Japanese religion -- Confucianism -- Taoism -- Zen Buddhism.
Subject: Religions.

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