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Allan Menzies. History of Religion
History of Religion
Table of Contents
PREFACE
PREFACE TO THE THIRD (REVISED) EDITION
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
PART I. THE RELIGION OF THE EARLY WORLD
PART II. ISOLATED NATIONAL RELIGIONS
PART III. THE SEMITIC GROUP
PART IV. THE ARYAN GROUP
PART V. UNIVERSAL RELIGION
PART I
THE RELIGION OF THE EARLY WORLD
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
PART II
ISOLATED NATIONAL RELIGIONS
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER IX
PART III
THE SEMITIC GROUP
CHAPTER X
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
PART IV
THE ARYAN GROUP
CHAPTER XIV
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
CHAPTER XX
CHAPTER XXI
PART V
UNIVERSAL RELIGION
CHAPTER XXII
CHAPTER XXIII
INDEX
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Allan Menzies
A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems
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People and land—Earliest religion; functional deities—Growth of Greek gods—Stones, animals, trees—Greek religion is local—Artistic tendency—Early Eastern influences—Homer—The Homeric gods—Worship in Homer—Omens—The state after death—Hesiod—The poets and the working religion—Rise of religious art—Festivals and games—Zeus and Apollo—Change of the Greek spirit in sixth century B.C.—New religious feeling; the mysteries—Religion and philosophy
