Pagan Christs: Page Index

Contents

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

§ 1. Origin of the Gods from Fear

§ 2. All Belief Results of Reasoning

§ 3. Dr. Jevons’ Theories of Religious Evolution

§ 4. Scientific View of the Religious Evolution

§ 5. Dr. Frazer's Definition

§ 6. The Scientific Induction

§ 7. Dr. Jevons’ Series of Self-Contradictions

§ 8. His Contradictory Doctrine of the Conditions of the Survival of Religion

§ 9. The Continuity of Religious Phenomena

§ 10. Dr. Frazer's Sociological Vindication of the Sorcerer

§ 11. The Beginning of the End of Religion

§ 12. Historic View of Ancestor Worship

§ 13. The Authoritarian Element a Mark of Religion

§ 14. Definition of Religion

§ 1. Early Forces of Reform

§ 2. Reform as a Religious Process

§ 3. Polytheism and Monotheism

§ 4. Hebrews and Babylonians

§ 5. Forces of Religious Evolution

§ 6. The Hebrew Evolution

§ 7. Post-Exilic Phases

§ 8. Revival and Disintegration

§ 9. Conclusion

§ 1. Totemism and Sacraments

§ 2. Theory and Ritual of Human Sacrifice

§ 3. The Christian Crucifixion

§ 4. Vogue of Human Sacrifice

§ 5. The Divinity of the Victim

§ 6. The Cannibal Sacrament

§ 7. The Semitic Antecedents

§ 8. The Judaic Evolution

§ 9. Specific Survivals in Judaism

§ 10. The Pre-Christian Jesus-God

§ 11. Private Jewish Eucharists

§ 12. The Eucharist in Orthodox Judaism

§ 13. Special Features of the Crucifixion Myth

§ 14. Possible Historical Elements

§ 15. The Gospel Mystery-Play

§ 16. The Mystery-Play and the Cultus

§ 17. Further Pagan Adaptations

§ 18. Synopsis and Conclusion: Genealogy of Human Sacrifice and Sacrament

§ 1. Primary and Secondary Ideas

§ 2. The Logos

§ 3. Derivations of the Christian Logos

§ 4. The Search for a Historical Jesus

§ 5. The Critical Problem

§ 6. Collapse of the Constructive Case

§ 7. Parallel Problems

§ 8. The Problem of Buddhist Origins

§ 9. Buddhism and Buddhas

§ 10. The Buddhist Cruces

§ 11. Sociological Clues

§ 12. Buddhism and Asoka

§ 13. The Buddha Myth

§ 14. The Problem of Manichæus

§ 15. The Manichean Solution

§ 16. The Case of Apollonius of Tyana

§ 1. Introductory

§ 2. Beginnings of Cult

§ 3. Zoroastrianism

§ 4. Evolution of Mithra

§ 5. The Process of Syncretism

§ 6. Symbols of Mithra

§ 7. The Cultus

§ 8. The Creed

§ 9. Mithraism and Christianity

§ 10. Further Christian Parallels

§ 11. The Vogue of Mithraism

§ 12. Absorption in Christianity

§ 13. The Point of Junction

§ 1. American Racial Origins

§ 2. Aztecs and Peruvians

§ 3. Primitive Religion and Human Sacrifice

§ 4. The Mexican Cultus

§ 5. Mexican Sacrifices and Cannibal Sacraments

§ 6. Mexican Ethics

§ 7. The Mexican White Christ

§ 8. The Fatality of the Priesthood

§ 9. The Religion of Peru

§ 10. Conclusion

Appendix A. The Eating of the Crucified Human Sacrifice

Appendix B. Dramatic and Ritual Survivals

Appendix C. Replies to Criticisms

Index