Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xiii
4. A HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS 1
5. 1. In the Beginning. . . : Magico-Religious Behavior of the Paleanthropians 3
6. 2. The Longest Revolution: The Discovery of Agriculture- Mesolithic and Neolithic 29
7. 3. The Mesopotamian Religions 56
8. 4. Religious Ideas and Political Crises in Ancient Egypt 85
9. 5. Megaliths, Temples, Ceremonial Centers: Occident, Mediterranean, Indus Valley 114
10. 6. The Religions of the Hittites and the Canaanites 139
11. 7. "When Israel Was a Child" 162
12. 8. The Religion of the Indo-Europeans. The Vedic Gods 187
13. 9. India before Gautama Buddha: From the Cosmic Sacrifice to the Supreme Identity Atman-Brahman 215
14. 10. Zeus and the Greek Religion 247
15. 11. The Olympians and the Heroes 264
16. 12. The Eleusinian Mysteries 290
17. 13. Zarathustra and the Iranian Religion 302
18. 14. The Religion of Israel in the Period of the Kings and the Prophets 334
19. 15. Dionysus, or Bliss Recovered 357
20. Abbreviations 374
21. Present Position of Studies: Problems and Progress. Critical Bibliographies 376
22. Index 481