The Alternative Tradition : Religion and the Rejection of Religion in the Ancient World.

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Main Author: Thrower, James
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter, 1980.
Series:Religion and Society.
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505 0 |a PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 1.1 Religion and myth; 1.2 Myth and reality: the primal vision; 1.3 Myth and ritual; 1.4 Myth, reality and science; 2. INDIA; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The religion of the Vedic period; 2.3 The beginnings of speculation: scepticism and agnosticism; 2.4 The Upanis?adic period; 2.5 The beginnings of Lokayata; 2.6 Some early freethinkers; 2.7 Philosophical Lokayata or Carvaka; 2.8 Early Sam?khya and Vaises?ika naturalism; 2.9 Jain and Buddhist naturalism; 3. CHINA; 3.1 Early Chinese religion; 3.2 The beginnings of rationalism; 3.3 Confucius. 
505 8 |a 3.4 Early Taoism3.5 Later Confucian naturalism and scepticism: Hsun Tzu and other sceptics; 3.6 Wang Ch'ung; 3.7 The later sceptical tradition; 4. GREECE; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Early Greek religion; 4.3 Ionian naturalism; 4.4 Atomism; 4.5 The Sophists; 4.6 The classical period of Greek thought; 4.7 The Hellenistic age; 4.8 Epicureanism; 4.9 The Sceptics; 5. ROME; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Cicero and Lucretius; 5.3 The early Empire; 5.4 Conclusion; 6. APPENDIX; 6.1 Israel and the ancient Near East; 6.2 Babylon; 6.3 Egypt; 7. POSTSCRIPT; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES; INDEX. 
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