TY  - BOOK
AU  - Thrower,James
TI  - The alternative tradition: religion and the rejection of religion in the ancient world 
T2  - Religion and society
SN  - 9783110804171
AV  - BL2756 
U1  - 291/.044 19
PY  - 1980///]
CY  - The Hague
PB  - Mouton Publishers
KW  - Skepticism
KW  - History
KW  - Agnosticism
KW  - Atheism
KW  - Civilization, Ancient
KW  - Civilization, Classical
KW  - Scepticisme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Agnosticisme
KW  - Athéisme
KW  - Civilisation ancienne
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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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