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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Some Primal and Bygone Religions | |
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| Religion in Prehistoric and Primal Cultures | |
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| Beginnings: Religion in Prehistoric Cultures | |
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| Basic Terminology: Characterisitics of Religion in Primal Cultures | |
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| Case Study: The Dieri of Southeast Australia | |
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| Case Study: The BaVenda of South Africa | |
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| Case Study: The Cherokees of the Southeastern Woodlands | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bygone Religions That Have Left Their Mark on the West | |
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| Mesopotamia | |
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| Greece | |
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| Rome | |
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| Europe Beyond the Alps | |
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| Mesoamerica: The Maya | |
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| Glossary | |
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| The Religions of South Asia | |
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| Early Hinduism: The Passage from Ritual Sacrifice to Mystical Union | |
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| The Religion of the Vedic Age | |
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| Brahmanism, Caste, and Ceremonial Life | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Later Hinduism: Religion as the Determinant of Social Behavior | |
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| Changes in Brahmanism: The Four Goals and the Three Ways | |
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| The Ordered Society: The Way ofWorks | |
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| The Reflective Mode: The Way of Knowledge, the Upanishads | |
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| The Reflective Models: The Six Acceptable Systems | |
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| The Devotional Mode: The Way of Devotion, the Bhagavad Gita | |
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| The Devotional Models: Epics, Puranas, and Deities | |
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| The Devotional Life | |
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| Issues and Problems of the Present | |
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| Jainism: A Study in Asceticism | |
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| Mahaviras Manner of Life | |
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| Philosophy and Ethics of Jainism | |
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| Mahaviras Followers | |
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| Buddhism in Its First Phase: Moderation in World Renunciation | |
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| Life of the Founder | |
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| The Teachings of the Buddha | |
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| The Religious Development of Buddhism: Diversity in Paths to Nirvana 186 | |
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| The Spread of Buddhism in India and Southeast Asia | |
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| The Rise of the Mahayana in India | |
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| The Spread of Buddhism in Northern Lands | |
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| The Help-of-Others Message of the Mahayana | |
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| The Mahayana Philosophies of Religion | |
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| Mahayana Schools of Thought in China and Japan | |
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| Buddhism in Tibet | |
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| Buddhism Today | |
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| Sikhism: A Study in Syncretism | |
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| The Life and Work of Nanak | |
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| Nanaks Teaching | |
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| The Political History of Sikhism | |
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| The Religions of East Asia | |
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| Native Chinese Religion and Daoism | |
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| The Basic Elements of Chinese Religion | |
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| Daoism as a Philosophy (Dao-jia) | |
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| Daoism as Magic and Religion (Dao-jiao) | |
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| Confucius and Confucianism: A Study in Optimistic Humanism | |
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| The Man Confucius | |
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| The Teachings of Confucius | |
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| The Confucian SchoolIts Rivals and Champions | |
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| Neo-Confucianism | |
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| The State Cult of Confucius | |
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| Religion in China in the Modern Period | |
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| Shinto: The Native Contribution to Japanese Religion | |
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| The Background of Shinto | |
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| The Shinto Myth | |
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| Shinto in Medieval and More Recent Times | |
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| State Shinto to 1945 | |
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| Shinto and the Warrior | |
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| Shrine Shinto Today | |
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| Domestic and Sectarian Shinto | |
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| The Religions of the Middle East | |
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| Zoroastrianism: A Religion Based on Ethical Dualism | |
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| Iranian Religion Before Zoroaster | |
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| The Life and Teachings of Zoroaster | |
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| The Religion of the Later Avesta | |
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| The Zoroastrians of the Present Day | |
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| Glossary 3<$$$> | |