Tradition 35 of 35
Ancient religions, animism, and ritual
Ancient and traditional religious systems, animist and polytheist belief, deities, sacred rites, mystery cults, and historical ritual practices that contextualize magical and esoteric traditions.
Membership means relevance, not endorsement.
- Books
- 14,367
- Earliest
- 1100
- to 2026
- Read free
- 44%
- 6,362 with public full text
- With covers
- 49%
How books qualify
- Query + metadata match4,877
- Metadata match260
- Query match9,225
- Source classification (retained through merging)5
Every placement records its evidence — the controlled subject queries that found the book at its sources and the bibliographic metadata retained through merging. Each book page shows its own. How the rationale system works.
Key subjects
- God2.1K
- Animals1.9K
- Early works to 18001.8K
- Juvenile fiction907
- Rites and ceremonies891
- History810
- Juvenile literature779
- Providence and government of God752
- Sermons669
- Funeral rites and ceremonies624
- Conduct of life615
- Religion557
- Bible479
- Children471
- Animal welfare462
- Christianity424
- animal magnetism417
- Children's stories380
- Fiction360
- Christian life357
- Natural history339
- Attributes334
- Zoology321
- Cult314
Top languages
- English7,932 · 55%
- German1,498 · 10%
- French1,335 · 9%
- Latin1,255 · 9%
- Italian437 · 3%
Notable authors
All authors- Harrison Weir40 in this tradition46 books
- Religious Tract Society32 in this tradition66 books
- France. Convention nationale31 books
- Augustine of Hippo26 in this tradition46 books
- Madeline Leslie25 in this tradition26 books
- Samuel G. Goodrich24 in this tradition34 books
- Franz Anton Mesmer23 in this tradition49 books
- Catholic Church22 in this tradition50 books
- Maximillien De Lafayette22 in this tradition24 books
- Martin Luther21 in this tradition129 books
- François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon21 in this tradition49 books
- Emanuel Swedenborg20 in this tradition84 books
14,367 books
An address to the Washington Literary Society, of Washington College, Pa., delivered September 28th, 1852
Alexander Campbell
1852
An address to the serious and candid professors of Christianity ... on the following subjects ... occasioned by an appeal, lately published, on the same subjects
Ambrose Serle
1773
An address to the serious and candid professors of Christianity on the following subjects
Ambrose Serle
1772
An address, delivered to the Auxiliary New-York Bible Society, on the fifteenth of November, 1813
John Bristed
1813
An admonition concerning a publick fast
Edward Stephens
1691
An alarm sounded to Englands inhabitants but most especially to English rulers ..
D. W
1661
An alarm to all impenitent [s]inners. Or, [T]he spirit of bondage raised up in judgement and allayed in mercy
H. Browne
1650
An alarum to England
Robert Gray
1609
An alarum to England, sounding the Most fearefull and terrible example of Gods vengeance, that euer was inflicted in this world vpon mankind for sinne
Robert Gray, Simon Stafford, John Budge
1609
An analysis of the principles of the divine government, in a series of conversations
Abel Pearson
1833
An anniversary sermon, delivered in the Presbyterian meeting-house in Columbia, on Lord's Day, December 1st, A.D. 1816
Jonathan Maxcy
1816
An answer to a late book intituled, A discourse concerning the inventions of men in the worship of God, by William, Lord Bishop of Derry
Robert Craghead
1694
An anthropology of animism and shamanism
Takako Yamada
1999
An antidote against atheism
Henry More
1658
An antidote against distractions, or, An indeavour to serve the church, in the daily case of wandrings in the worship of God
Richard Steele
1667
An apologie
George Hakewill
1635
An apologie of the povver and prouidence of God in the gouernment of the world. Or An examination and censure of the common errour touching natures perpetuall and vniuersall decay
George Hakewill
1627
An apologie of the power and providence of God in the government of the world
George Hakewill
1627
An apologie or declaration of the povver and providence of God in the government of the world
George Hakewill
1630
An apologie or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the world
George Hakewill
1630
An apologie or declaration of the power and providence of God in the government of the world, or, An examination and censvre of the common errovr tovching natvres perpetvall and vniversall decay
George Hakewill
1627
An apology for authorized and set forms of litvrgie against the pretence of the spirit
Jeremy Taylor
1649
An apology for the brute creation, or, Abuse of animals censured
James Granger
1773
An apology for the doctrine of Pythagoras as compatible with that of Jesus Christ
Thomas Förster
1858