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| 16. The Religions of Ancient China
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| 127. Religion in the Bronze Age: The God of Heaven and the ancestors
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| 128. The exemplary dynasty: The Chou
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| 129. The origin and organizing of the world
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| 130. Polarities, alternation, and reintegration
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| 131. Confucius: The power of the rites
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| 132. Lao Tzu and Taoism
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| 133. Techniques of long life
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| 134. The Taoists and alchemy
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| 17. Brahmanism and Hinduism: The First Philosophies and Techniques of Salvation
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| 135. "All is suffering ... "
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| 136. Methods of attaining the supreme "awakening"
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| 137. History of ideas and chronology of texts
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| 138. Presystematic Vedanta
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| 139. The spirit according to Saqikhya-Yoga
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| 140. The meaning of Creation: Helping in the deliverance of spirit
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| 141. The meaning of deliverance
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| 142. Yoga: Concentration on a single object
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| 143. Techniques of Yoga
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| 144. The role of the God in Yoga
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| 145. Samiidhi and the "miraculous powers"
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| 146. Final deliverance
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| 18. The Buddha and His Contemporaries
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| 147. Prince Siddhartha
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| 148. The Great Departure
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| 149. The "Awakening." The preaching of the Law
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| 150. Devadatta's schism. Last conversion. The Buddha enters parinirvanja
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| 151. The religious milieu: The wandering ascetics
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| 152. Mahavira and the "Saviors of the World"
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| 153. Jain doctrines and practices
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| 154. The Ajivikas and the omnipotence of "destiny"
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| 19. The Message of the Buddha: From the Terror of the Eternal Return to the Bliss of the Inexpressible
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| 155. The man struck by a poisoned arrow ...
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| 156. The four Noble Truths and the Middle Path. Why?
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| 157. The impermanence of things and the doctrine of anatta
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| 158. The way that leads to nirvanja
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| 159. Techniques of meditation and their illumination by "wisdom"
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| 160. The paradox of the Unconditioned
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| 20. Roman Religion: From Its Origins to the Prosecution of the Bacchanals (ca. 186)
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| 161. Romulus and the sacrificial victim
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| 162. The "historicization" of lndo-European myths
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| 163. Specific characteristics of Roman religiosity
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| 164. The private cult: Penates, Lares, Manes
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| 165. Priesthoods, augurs, and religious brotherhoods
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| 166. Jupiter, Mars, Quirinus,and the Capitoline triad
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| 167. The Etruscans: Enigmas and hypotheses
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| 168. Crises and catastrophes: From the Gallic suzerainty to the Second Punic War
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| 21. Celts, Germans, Thracians, and Getae
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| 169. Persistence of prehistoric elements
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| 170. The Indo-European heritage
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| 171. Is it possible to reconstruct the Celtic pantheon?
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| 172. The Druids and their esoteric teaching
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| 173. Yggdrasill and the cosmogony of the ancient Germans
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| 174. The Aesir and the Vanir. Ooinn and his "shamanic" powers
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| 175. War, ecstasy, and death
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| 176. The Aesir: Tyr, Thor, Baldr
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| 177. The Vanir gods. Loki. The end of the world
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| 178. The Thracians, "great anonyms" of history
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| 179. Zalmoxis and "immortalization"
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| 22. Orpheus, Pythagoras, and the New Eschatology
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| 180. Myths of Orpheus, lyre-player and "founder of initiations"
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| 181. Orphic theogony and anthropogony: Transmigration and immortality of the soul
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| 182. The new eschatology
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| 183. Plato, Pythagoras, and Orphism
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| 184. Alexander the Great and Hellenistic culture
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| 23. The History of Buddhism from Mahakasyapa to Nagarjuna. Jainism after Mahavira
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| 185. Buddhism until the first schism
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| 186. The time between Alexander the Great and Asoka
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| 187. Doctrinal tensions and new syntheses
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| 188. The "Way of the boddhisattvas"
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| 189. Nagarjuna and the doctrine of universal emptiness
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| 190. Jainism after Mahavira: Erudition, cosmology, soteriology
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| 24. The Hindu Synthesis: The Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita
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| 191. The eighteen-day battle
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| 192. Eschatological war and the end of the world
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| 193. Krsaa's revelation
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| 194 .. "Renouncing the fruits of one's acts"
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| 195. "Separation" and "totalization"
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| 25. The Ordeals of Judaism: From Apocalypse to Exaltation of the Torah
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| 196. The beginnings of eschatology
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| 197. Haggai and Zechariah, eschatological prophets
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| 198. Expectation of the messianic king
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| 199. The progress of legalism
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| 200. The personification of divine Wisdom
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| 201. From despair to a new theodicy: The Qoheleth and Ecclesiasticus
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| 202. The first apocalypses: Daniel and I Enoch
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| 203. The only hope: The end of the world
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| 204. Reaction of the Pharisees: Glorification of the Torah
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| 26. Syncretism and Creativity in the Hellenistic Period: The Promise of Salvation
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| 205. The Mystery religions
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| 206. The mystical Dionysus
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| 207. Attis and Cybele
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| 208. Isis and the Egyptian Mysteries
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| 209. The revelation of Hermes Trismegistus
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| 210. Initiatory aspects of Hermetism
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| 211. Hellenistic alchemy
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| New Iranian Syntheses
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| 212. Religious orientations under the Arsacids (ca. 247 B.c. to 226 A.D.)
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| 213. Zurvan and the origin of evil
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| 214. The eschatological function of time
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| 215. The two Creations: menok and getik
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| 216. From Gay6mart to Saoshyant
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| 217. The Mysteries of Mithra
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| 218. "If Christianity had been halted ... "
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| 28. The Birth of Christianity 330
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| 219. An "obscure Jew": Jesus of Nazareth
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| 220. The Good News: The Kingdom of God is at hand
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| 221. The birth of the Church
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| 222. The Apostle to the Gentiles
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| 223. The Essenes at Qumran
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| 224. Destruction of the Temple. Delay in the occurrence of the parousia
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| 29. Paganism, Christianity, and Gnosis in the Imperial Period
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| 225. Jam redit et Virgo . . .
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| 226. The tribulations of a religio illicita
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| 227. Christian gnosis
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| 228. Approaches of Gnosticism
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| 229. From Simon Magus to Valentinus
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| 230. Gnostic myths, images, and metaphors
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| 231 . The martyred Paraclete
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| 232. The Manichaean gnosis
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| 233. The great myth: The fall and redemption of the divine soul
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| 234. Absolute dualism as mysterium tremendum
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| 30. The Twilight of the Gods
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| 235. Heresies and orthodoxy
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| 236. The Cross and the Tree of Life
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| 237. To ward "cosmic Christianity''
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| 238. The flowering of theology
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| 239. Between Sol lnvictus and "In hoc signo vinces"
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| 240. The bus that stops at Eleusis
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