Alternative Tradition
Subtitle: A Study of Unbelief in the Ancient World (Religion and Society)
Publisher: Mouton De Gruyter
Published: August 1979
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789027979971
Subjects: Religion: general; Atheism; Civilization, Ancient; History Of Religion (General); Agnosticism; History; Skepticism
First sentence: My theme is the beginnings of the growth of a consistently held naturalistic view of the world, but before turning to these beginnings in ancient India, China, Greece, Rome and the ancient Near East, I have thought it advisable to look at the outlook on the world which naturalism seeks to supplant and which I call 'mythological' or 'mythico-religious'.