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Index
Cover
Epigraph
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction: Believing and Belonging
Part One: Our Place in the Pattern
Chapter 1: The Beginnings of Belief
Chapter 2: Fire and State
Chapter 3: Water of Life and Death
Chapter 4: The Return of the Light
Chapter 5: Harvest and Homage
Part Two: Believing Together
Chapter 6: Living with the Dead
Chapter 7: Birth and the Body
Chapter 8: A Place in Tradition
Chapter 9: Let Us Pray
Chapter 10: The Power of Song
Part Three: Theatres of Faith
Chapter 11: The House of God
Chapter 12: Gifts to the Gods
Chapter 13: Holy Killing
Chapter 14: To Be a Pilgrim
Chapter 15: Festival Time
Part Four: The Power of Images
Chapter 16: The Protectoresses
Chapter 17: The Work of Art in Times of Spiritual Reproduction
Chapter 18: The Accretion of Meaning
Chapter 19: Change Your Life
Chapter 20: Rejecting the Image, Revering the Word
Part Five: One God or Many
Chapter 21: The Blessings of Many Gods
Chapter 22: The Power of One
Chapter 23: Spirits of Place
Chapter 24: If God Be with Us
Chapter 25: Tolerating and Not Tolerating
Part Six: Powers Earthly and Divine
Chapter 26: The Mandate of Heaven
Chapter 27: Thy Kingdom Come
Chapter 28: Turning the Screw
Chapter 29: ‘There Is No God!’
Chapter 30: Living with Each Other
List of Illustrations
Further Reading
Acknowledgements
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