Pagan Christs: Page Index

Contents

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Preface to the Second Edition

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Introduction

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§ 1. Origin of the Gods from Fear

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§ 2. All Belief Results of Reasoning

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§ 3. Dr. Jevons’ Theories of Religious Evolution

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§ 4. Scientific View of the Religious Evolution

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§ 5. Dr. Frazer's Definition

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§ 6. The Scientific Induction

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

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

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§ 9. The Continuity of Religious Phenomena

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

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§ 11. The Beginning of the End of Religion

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§ 12. Historic View of Ancestor Worship

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§ 13. The Authoritarian Element a Mark of Religion

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§ 14. Definition of Religion

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§ 1. Early Forces of Reform

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§ 2. Reform as a Religious Process

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§ 3. Polytheism and Monotheism

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§ 4. Hebrews and Babylonians

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§ 5. Forces of Religious Evolution

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§ 6. The Hebrew Evolution

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§ 7. Post-Exilic Phases

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§ 8. Revival and Disintegration

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§ 9. Conclusion

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§ 1. Totemism and Sacraments

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§ 2. Theory and Ritual of Human Sacrifice

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§ 3. The Christian Crucifixion

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§ 4. Vogue of Human Sacrifice

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§ 5. The Divinity of the Victim

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§ 6. The Cannibal Sacrament

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§ 7. The Semitic Antecedents

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§ 8. The Judaic Evolution

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§ 9. Specific Survivals in Judaism

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§ 10. The Pre-Christian Jesus-God

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§ 11. Private Jewish Eucharists

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§ 12. The Eucharist in Orthodox Judaism

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§ 13. Special Features of the Crucifixion Myth

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§ 14. Possible Historical Elements

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§ 15. The Gospel Mystery-Play

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§ 16. The Mystery-Play and the Cultus

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§ 17. Further Pagan Adaptations

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

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§ 1. Primary and Secondary Ideas

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§ 2. The Logos

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§ 3. Derivations of the Christian Logos

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§ 4. The Search for a Historical Jesus

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§ 5. The Critical Problem

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§ 6. Collapse of the Constructive Case

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§ 7. Parallel Problems

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§ 8. The Problem of Buddhist Origins

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§ 9. Buddhism and Buddhas

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§ 10. The Buddhist Cruces

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§ 11. Sociological Clues

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§ 12. Buddhism and Asoka

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§ 13. The Buddha Myth

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§ 14. The Problem of Manichæus

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§ 15. The Manichean Solution

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§ 16. The Case of Apollonius of Tyana

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§ 1. Introductory

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§ 2. Beginnings of Cult

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§ 3. Zoroastrianism

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§ 4. Evolution of Mithra

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§ 5. The Process of Syncretism

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§ 6. Symbols of Mithra

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§ 7. The Cultus

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§ 8. The Creed

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§ 9. Mithraism and Christianity

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§ 10. Further Christian Parallels

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§ 11. The Vogue of Mithraism

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§ 12. Absorption in Christianity

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§ 13. The Point of Junction

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§ 1. American Racial Origins

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§ 2. Aztecs and Peruvians

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§ 3. Primitive Religion and Human Sacrifice

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§ 4. The Mexican Cultus

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§ 5. Mexican Sacrifices and Cannibal Sacraments

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§ 6. Mexican Ethics

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§ 7. The Mexican White Christ

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§ 8. The Fatality of the Priesthood

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§ 9. The Religion of Peru

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§ 10. Conclusion

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Appendix A. The Eating of the Crucified Human Sacrifice

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Appendix B. Dramatic and Ritual Survivals

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Appendix C. Replies to Criticisms

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Index

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