Table of Content
Preface 16. The Religions of Ancient China 17. Brahmanism and Hinduism: The First Philosophies and Techniques of Salvation 18. The Buddha and His Contemporaries 19. The Message of the Buddha: From the Terror of the Eternal Return to the Bliss of the Inexpressible 20. Roman Religion: From Its Origin to the Prosecution of the Bacchanals (ca. 186) 21. Celts, Germans, Thracians, and Getae 22. Orpheus, Pythagoras, and the New Eschatology 23. The History of Buddhism from Mahakasyapa to Nagarjuna. Jainism after Mahavira 24. The Hindu Synthesis: The Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita 25. The Ordeals of Judaism: From Apocalypse to Exaltation of the Torah 26. Syncretism and Creativity in the Hellenistic Period: The Promise of Salvation 27. New Iranian Syntheses 28. The Birth of Christianity 29. Paganism, Christianity, and Gnosis in the Imperial Period 30. The Twilight of the Gods List of Abbreviations Present Position of Studies: Problems and Progress. Critical Bibliographies Index
