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Eliade, Mircea

History of religious ideas : from the stone age to the Eleusinian mysteries (Vol. 1) by Mircea Eliade. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1981. - 489 p.

Table of Contents:
Part 1. In the Beginning... : Magico-Religious Behavior of the Paleanthropians
Part 2. The Longest Revolution: The Discovery of Agriculture-Mesolithic and Neolithic
Part 3. The Mesopotamian Religions
Part 4. Religious Ideas and Political Crises in Ancient Egypt
Part 5. Megaliths, Temples, Ceremonial Centers: Occident, Mediterranean, Indus Valley
Part 6. The Religions of the Hittites and the Canaanites
Part 7. ""When Israel Was a Child""
Part 8. The Religion of the Indo-Europeans. Te Vedic Gods
Part 9. India Before Gautama Buddha: From the Cosmix Sacrifice to the Supreme Identity Atman Brahman
Part 10. Zeus and the Greek Religion
Part 11. The Olympians and the Heroes
Part 12. The Eleusinian Mysteries
Part 13. Zarathustra and the Iranian Religion
Part 14. The Religion of Israel in the Period of the Kings and the Prophets
Part 15. Dionysus, or Bliss Recovered
List of Abbreviations
Present of Position of Studies: Problems and Progress. Critical Bibliographies
Index


ISBN: 9780226204017

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion--History.

Dewey Class. No.: 200 / ELI/HIS