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Index
Cover Copyright Title Page Contents Preface 16. The Religions of Ancient China
126. Religious beliefs in the Neolithic period 127. Religion in the Bronze Age: The God of Heaven and the ancestors 128. The exemplary dynasty: The Chou 129. The origin and organizing of the world 130. Polarities, alternation, and reintegration 131. Confucius: The power of the rites 132. Lao Tzŭ and Taoism 133. Techniques of long life 134. The Taoists and alchemy
17. Brahmanism and Hinduism: The First Philosophies and Techniques of Salvation
135. “All is suffering . . .” 136. Methods of attaining the supreme “awakening” 137. History of ideas and chronology of texts 138. Presystematic Vedānta 139. The spirit according to Sāmkhya-Yoga 140. The meaning of Creation: Helping in the deliverance of spirit 141. The meaning of deliverance 142. Yoga: Concentration on a single object 143. Techniques of Yoga 144. The role of the God in Yoga 145. Samādhi and the “miraculous powers” 146. Final deliverance
18. The Buddha and His Contemporaries
147. Prince Siddhārtha 148. The Great Departure 149. The “Awakening.” The preaching of the Law 150. Devadatta’s schism. Last conversion. The Buddha enters parinirvāna 151. The religious milieu: The wandering ascetics 152. Mahāvīra and the “Saviors of the World” 153. Jain doctrines and practices 154. The Ājīvikas and the omnipotence of “destiny”
19. The Message of the Buddha: From the Terror of the Eternal Return to the Bliss of the Inexpressible
155. The man struck by a poisoned arrow . . . 156. The four Noble Truths and the Middle Path. Why? 157. The impermanence of things and the doctrine of anattā 158. The way that leads to nirvāna 159. Techniques of meditation and their illumination by “wisdom” 160. The paradox of the Unconditioned
20. Roman Religion: From Its Origins to the Prosecution of the Bacchanals (ca. 186)
161. Romulus and the sacrificial victim 162. The “historicization” of Indo-European myths 163. Specific characteristics of Roman religiosity 164. The private cult: Penates, Lares, Manes 165. Priesthoods, augurs, and religious brotherhoods 166. Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus, and the Capitoline triad 167. The Etruscans: Enigmas and hypotheses 168. Crises and catastrophes: From the Gallic suzerainty to the Second Punic War
21. Celts, Germans, Thracians, and Getae
169. Persistence of prehistoric elements 170. The Indo-European heritage 171. Is it possible to reconstruct the Celtic pantheon? 172. The Druids and their esoteric teaching 173. Yggdrasill and the cosmogony of the ancient Germans 174. The Aesir and the Vanir. Óðinn and his “shamanic” powers 175. War, ecstasy, and death 176. The Aesir: Týr, Thór, Baldr 177. The Vanir gods. Loki. The end of the world 178. The Thracians, “great anonyms” of history 179. Zalmoxis and “immortalization”
22. Orpheus, Pythagoras, and the New Eschatology
180. Myths of Orpheus, lyre-player and “founder of initiations” 181. Orphic theogony and anthropogony: Transmigration and immortality of the soul 182. The new eschatology 183. Plato, Pythagoras, and Orphism 184. Alexander the Great and Hellenistic culture
23. The History of Buddhism from Mahākāśyapa to Nāgārjuna. Jainism after Mahāvīra
185. Buddhism until the first schism 186. The time between Alexander the Great and Aśoka 187. Doctrinal tensions and new syntheses 188. The “Way of the boddhisattvas” 189. Nāgārjuna and the doctrine of universal emptiness 190. Jainism after Mahāvīra: Erudition, cosmology, soteriology
24. The Hindu Synthesis: The Mahābhārata and the Bhagavad Gītā
191. The eighteen-day battle 192. Eschatological war and the end of the world 193. Krsna’s revelation 194. “Renouncing the fruits of one’s acts” 195. “Separation” and “totalization”
25. The Ordeals of Judaism: From Apocalypse to Exaltation of the Torah
196. The beginnings of eschatology 197. Haggai and Zechariah, eschatological prophets 198. Expectation of the messianic king 199. The progress of legalism 200. The personification of divine Wisdom 201. From despair to a new theodicy: The Qoheleth and Ecclesiasticus 202. The first apocalypses: Daniel and 1 Enoch 203. The only hope: The end of the world 204. Reaction of the Pharisees: Glorification of the Torah
26. Syncretism and Creativity in the Hellenistic Period: The Promise of Salvation
205. The Mystery religions 206. The mystical Dionysus 207. Attis and Cybele 208. Isis and the Egyptian Mysteries 209. The revelation of Hermes Trismegistus 210. Initiatory aspects of Hermetism 211. Hellenistic alchemy
27. New Iranian Syntheses
212. Religious orientations under the Arsacids (ca. 247 B.C. to 226 A.D.) 213. Zurvan and the origin of evil 214. The eschatological function of time 215. The two Creations: mēnōk and gētik 216. From Gayōmart to Saoshyant 217. The Mysteries of Mithra 218. “If Christianity had been halted . . .”
28. The Birth of Christianity
219. An “obscure Jew”: Jesus of Nazareth 220. The Good News: The Kingdom of God is at hand 221. The birth of the Church 222. The Apostle to the Gentiles 223. The Essenes at Qumran 224. Destruction of the Temple. Delay in the occurrence of the parousia
29. Paganism, Christianity, and Gnosis in the Imperial Period
225. Jam redit et Virgo . . . 226. The tribulations of a religio illicita 227. Christian gnosis 228. Approaches of Gnosticism 229. From Simon Magus to Valentinus 230. Gnostic myths, images, and metaphors 231. The martyred Paraclete 232. The Manichaean gnosis 233. The great myth: The fall and redemption of the divine soul 234. Absolute dualism as mysterium tremendum
30. The Twilight of the Gods
235. Heresies and orthodoxy 236. The Cross and the Tree of Life 237. Toward “cosmic Christianity” 238. The flowering of theology 239. Between Sol Invictus and “In hoc signo vinces” 240. The bus that stops at Eleusis
List of Abbreviations Present Position of Studies: Problems and Progress. Critical Bibliographies Notes Index
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