3 volumes ; 24 cm; Translation of Histoire des croyances et des idées religieuses.; Vol. 3 translated by Alf Hiltebeitel and Diane Apostolow-Cappadona.; 1. From the stone age to the Eleusinian mysteries -- 2. From Gautama Buddha to the triumph of Christianity -- 3. From Muhammad to the Age of Reform.; V. 1. From the stone age to the Eleusinian mysteries. In the beginning: magico-religious behavior of the Paleanthropians ; The longest revolution: the discovery of agriculture, Mesolithic and Neolithic ; The Mesopotamian religions ; Religious ideas and political crises in ancient Egypt ; Megaliths, temples, ceremonial centers: Occident, Mediterranean, Indus Valley ; The religions of the Hittites and the Canaanites ; "When Israel was a child" ; The religion of the Indo-Europeans, the Vedic gods ; India before Gautama Buddha: from the cosmic sacrifice to the supreme identity Atman-Brahman ; Zeus and the Greek religion ; The Olympians and the heroes ; The Eleusinian mysteries ; Zarathustra and the Iranian religion ; The religion of Israel in the period of the kings and the prophets ; Dionysus, or bliss recovered -- v. 2. From Gautama Buddha to the triumph of Christianity. The religions of ancient China ; Brahmanism and Hinduism: the first philosophies and techniques of salvation ; The Buddha and his contemporaries ; The message of the Buddha: from the terror of the eternal return to the bliss of the inexpressible ; Roman religion: from its origins to the prosecution of the Bacchanals ; Celts, Germans, Thracians, and Getae ; Orpheus, Pythagoras, and the new eschatology ; The history of Buddhism from Mahakasyapa to Nagarjuna, Jainism after Mahavira ; The Hindu synthesis: the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita ; The ordeals of Judaism: from apocalypse to exaltation of the Torah ; Syncretism and creativity in the Hellenistic period: the promise of salvation ; New Iranian syntheses ; The birth of Christianity ; Paganism, Christianity, and Gnosis in the Imperial Period ; The twilight of the gods -- v. 3. From Muhammad to the age of reforms. The religions of ancient Eurasia: Turko-Mongols, Finno-Ugrians, Balto-Slavs ; The Christian churches up to the iconoclastic crisis (eighth to ninth centuries) ; Muhammad and the unfolding of Islam ; Western Catholicism from Charlemagne to Joachim of Floris ; Muslim theologies and mystical traditions ; Judaism from the Bar Kokhba revolt to Hasidism ; Religious movements in Europe: from the late Middle Ages to the eve of the Reformation ; Religion, magic, and Hermetic traditions before and after the Reformation ; Tibetan religions.; Examines the religions of ancient China, Brahmanism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Celtic and German religions, Judaism, and Christianity, and explores each one's philosophical concepts.; 

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