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