In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religous ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism and Hinduism, Buddha and his contemporaries, Roman religion, Celtic and German religion, Judaism, the Hellenistic period, the Iranian syntheses, and the birth of Christianity - all are encompassed in this volume.
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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 Celts, Germans, Thracians, and Getae Orpheus, Pythagoras, and the new eschatology History of Buddhism from Mahakasyapa to Nagarjuna. Jainism after Mahavira The Hindu synthesis : the Mahabharata and Bhagavad Gita The ordeals of Judaism : from apocalypse to exaltation of the Torah New Iranian synthesis The birth of Christianity Paganism, Christianity, and gnosis in the imperial period
