Growth of the great religions
out of these beliefs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51-65

CHAPTER V
EARLY DEVELOPMENTS--PRACTICES

Sacrifice--Prayer--Sacred places, objects, persons--Magic--
Character of early religion--Early religion and morality . . 66-78

CHAPTER VI
NATIONAL RELIGION

Classifications of religions--Rise of national religion--It
affords a new social bond--And a better God--Example--The
Inca religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79-90

PART II
ISOLATED NATIONAL RELIGIONS

CHAPTER VII
BABYLON AND ASSYRIA

People and literature--Worship of spirits--Worship of
animals--The great Gods--Mythology--The state religion . . . 91-105

CHAPTER VIII
CHINA

History of China--The literature of the religion--The state
religion of ancient China--Heaven--The spirits--Ancestors--
Confucius--His life--His doctrine--Taoism--Buddhism in China 106-125

CHAPTER IX
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT

History and literature--1. Animal worship--Theories
accounting for it--2. The great Gods--They also are local--
Mythology--Dynasties of gods--Ra--Osiris--Ptah--Was the
earliest religion monotheistic?--Syncretism--Pantheism--
Worship--3. The doctrine of the other life--Treatment of the
dead--The spirit in the under-world--_The Book of the Dead_--
Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126-157

PART III
THE SEMITIC GROUP

CHAPTER X
THE SEMITIC RELIGION

Home of the Semites--Character of the race--Their early
religious ideas--Difference between Semitic and Aryan
religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159-169

CHAPTER XI
CANAANITES AND PHENICIANS

The Religion of the Canaanites--The Phenicians--Their gods--
Astral deities of Phenicia--Influence of Phenician art . . . 170-178

CHAPTER XII
ISRAEL

The sacred literature--The people--Jehovah--The early ritual
was simple--Contact with Canaanite religion--Danger of
fusion--Religious conflict--The monarchy--Religion not
centralised--The Prophets--The old religion national--
Criticism of the old religion by the prophets--Appearance of
Universalism--Ethical monotheism--Individualism of the
prophetic teaching--The reforms--Deuteronomy--Earlier codes--
The exile--The return; the reform of Ezra--Character of the
later religion--Heathenish elements of Judaism--Spiritual
elements--The Psalms--The Synagogue--The national hopes--The
state after death . . . . . . . . .