Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. 16. The Religions of Ancient China 1
5. 17. Brahmanism and Hinduism: The First Philosophies and Techniques of Salvation 44
6. 18. The Buddha and His Contemporaries 72
7. 19. The Message of the Buddha: From the Terror of the Eternal Return to the Bliss of the Inexpressible 91
8. 20. Roman Religion: From Its Origins to the Prosecution of the Bacchanals (ca. 186) 107
9. 21. Celts, Germans, Thracians, and Getae 137
10. 22. Orpheus, Pythagoras, and the New Eschatology 180
11. 23. The History of Buddhism from Mahākāśyapa to Nāgārjuna. Jainism after Mahāvīra 210
12. 24. The Hindu Synthesis: The Mahābhārata and the Bhagavad Gītā 232
13. 25. The Ordeals of Judaism: From Apocalypse to Exaltation of the Torah 247
14. 26. Syncretism and Creativity in the Hellenistic Period: The Promise of Salvation 277
15. 27. New Iranian Syntheses 306
16. 28. The Birth of Christianity 330
17. 29. Paganism, Christianity, and Gnosis in the Imperial Period 362
18. 30. The Twilight of the Gods 396
19. List of Abbreviations 417
20. Present Position of Studies: Problems and Progress. Critical Bibliographies 419
21. Index 557