A History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries

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"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision."--Martin E. Marty, New York Times Book Review. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A HISTORY OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS -- 1. In the Beginning. . . : Magico-Religious Behavior of the Paleanthropians -- 2. The Longest Revolution: The Discovery of Agriculture- Mesolithic and Neolithic -- 3. The Mesopotamian Religions -- 4. Religious Ideas and Political Crises in Ancient Egypt -- 5. Megaliths, Temples, Ceremonial Centers: Occident, Mediterranean, Indus Valley -- 6. The Religions of the Hittites and the Canaanites -- 7. "When Israel Was a Child" -- 8. The Religion of the Indo-Europeans. The Vedic Gods -- 9. India before Gautama Buddha: From the Cosmic Sacrifice to the Supreme Identity Atman-Brahman -- 10. Zeus and the Greek Religion -- 11. The Olympians and the Heroes -- 12. The Eleusinian Mysteries -- 13. Zarathustra and the Iranian Religion -- 14. The Religion of Israel in the Period of the Kings and the Prophets -- 15. Dionysus, or Bliss Recovered -- Abbreviations -- Present Position of Studies: Problems and Progress. Critical Bibliographies -- Index