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Language: English
BY
LEWIS R. FARNELL, D.Litt., M.A.
FELLOW OF EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD
AUTHOR OF
“CULTS OF THE GREEK STATES,” “EVOLUTION OF RELIGION,”
“HIGHER ASPECTS OF GREEK RELIGION” (HIBBERT LECTURES)
CHAPTER II.
Statement of the Problem and the Evidence.
CHAPTER III.
Morphology of the Compared Religions.
CHAPTER IV.
Anthropomorphism and Theriomorphism in Anatolia and the
Mediterranean.
CHAPTER V.
Predominance of the Goddess.
CHAPTER VI.
The Deities as Nature-Powers.
CHAPTER VII.
The Deities as Social-Powers.
CHAPTER VIII.
Religion and Morality.
CHAPTER IX.
Purity a Divine Attribute.
CHAPTER X.
Concept of Divine Power and Ancient Cosmogonies.
CHAPTER XI.
The Religious Temperament of the Eastern and Western
Peoples.
The relation of the individual to the deity more intimate in
Mesopotamia than in Greece—The religious temper more
ecstatic, more prone to self-abasement, sentimentality, rapture
—Humility and the fear of God ethical virtues in Babylonia—The
child named after the god in both societies—In some Semitic
communities the deity takes a title from the worshipper—
Fanaticism in Mesopotamian religion, entire absence of it in the
Hellenic
CHAPTER XII.
Eschatologic Ideas of East and West.
CHAPTER XIII.
Comparison of the Ritual.
CHAPTER XIV.
Summary of Results.
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS.
ENDNOTES.
GREECE AND BABYLON.
CHAPTER I.
Inaugural Lecture.