The alternative tradition : religion and the rejection of religion in the ancient world /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Thrower, James, 1936-1999 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: The Hague : Mouton Publishers, [1980]
Series:Religion and society (Hague, Netherlands) ; 18.
Subjects:
Skepticism > History.
Agnosticism > History.
Atheism > History.
Civilization, Ancient.
Civilization, Classical.
Scepticisme > Histoire.
Agnosticisme > Histoire.
Athéisme > Histoire.
Civilisation ancienne.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
Agnosticism.
Atheism.
Skepticism.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Religion and myth
  • Myth and reality: the primal vision
  • Myth and ritual
  • Myth, reality and science
  • India. Introduction
  • The religion of the Vedic period
  • The beginnings of speculation: scepticism and agnosticism
  • The Upaniṣadic period
  • The beginnings of Lokāyāta
  • Some early freethinkers
  • Philosophical Lokāyāta or Cārvāka
  • Early Sāmkhya and Vaiśesika naturalism
  • Jain and Buddhist naturalism
  • China. Early Chinese religion
  • The beginnings of rationalism
  • Confucius
  • Early Taoism
  • Later Confucian naturalism and scepticism: Hsun Tzu and other sceptics
  • Wang Ch'ung
  • The later sceptical tradition
  • Greece. Introduction
  • Early Greek religion
  • Ionian naturalism
  • Atomism
  • The Sophists
  • The classical period of Greek thought
  • The Hellenistic age
  • Epicureanism
  • The Sceptics
  • Rome. Introduction
  • Cicero and Lucretius
  • The early Empire
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. Israel and the ancient Near East
  • Babylon
  • Egypt
  • Postscript.

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