Ancient religions
Subtitle: originally published as Forgotten religions, including some living primitive religions
By: edited by Vergilius Ferm.
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Published: 1950
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Religions
Other titles: Forgotten religions.; Haeske Collection.
Notes: Donated in 2000 by Carroll Haeske, class of 1922, from his personal collection.

Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: ch. 1. Editor's preface / -- Vergilius Ferm -- ch. 2. The; title: dawn of religions -- Phyllis Ackerman -- ch. 3. The; title: religion of ancient Egypt -- Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer -- ch. 4.; title: Sumerian religion -- Samuel Noah Kramer -- ch. 5.; title: Assyro-Babylonian religion -- A. Leo Oppenheim -- ch. 6.; title: Hittite religion -- Hans Gustav Güterbock -- ch. 7. The; title: religion of the Canaanites -- Theodor H. Gaster -- ch. 8.; title: Religion in prehistoric Greece -- George Emmanuel Mylonas -- ch. 9.; title: Mystery religions of Greece -- George Emmanuel Mylonas -- ch. 10. The; title: inhabited world -- Charles Alexander Robinson, Jr. -- ch. 11.; title: Mithraism -- Irach J.S. Taraporewala -- ch. 12.; title: Manichaeism -- Irach J.S. Taraporewala -- ch. 13.; title: Mazdakism -- Irach J.S. Taraporewala -- ch. 14.; title: Old Norse religion -- Murray Fowler -- ch. 15.; title: Tibetan religion -- Li An-che -- ch. 16. The; title: religion of the Australian aborigines -- A.P. Elkin -- ch. 17.; title: South American Indian religions -- Julian H. Steward -- ch. 18.; title: Shamanism -- Mircea Eliade -- ch. 19. The; title: religion of the Eskimos -- Margaret Landis -- ch. 20. The; title: religion of the Navaho Indians -- Leland Clifton Wyman -- ch. 21. The; title: religion of the Hopi Indians -- Mischa Titiev.