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
Christians earnest expectation and longing for the glorious appearing of the great God and our saviour Jesus Christ
Daniel Burgess
1675
Chromotaxia
P. A. Saccardo
1894
Cicero's three books touching the nature of the gods
Marcus Tullius Cicero
1683
Clarke's text-book on embalming, illustrating and describing the anatomy of the human body ...
J. H. Clarke, Springfield Clarke Chemical Works
1888
Classification of the collection to illustrate the animal resources of the United States
G. Brown Goode, G. C. Goode
1876
Collection of the sweet assuring promises of scripture
Samuel Clark
1857
Committee on experimental medicine
Medical Society of the State of New York
1882
Communion with God
John White Chadwick
1888
Compendium of the order of the burial service and rules for the mournings, &c
N.Y.) Ḥevrah Ḥesed ṿe-emet (New York
1827
Compositions from the "Works and days" and "Theogony" of Hesiod
John Flaxman
1817
Concerning the worship of the living God which he teacheth Israel his people who know him to be the only true God, and the worship which he teacheth them, to be the only true spiritual worship
Isaac Penington
1661
Condemned, or, Merit and mercy
Religious Tract Society
1839
Condition and character of females in pagan and Mohammedan countries
American Tract Society
1800
Confidence in God
Henry Edward Manning
1860
Confidence in God in a day of trouble
Jesse Fonda
1817
Confidence in God, illustrated in the life of John Antes, a missionary in Egypt
John Antes
1839
Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul
William Bates
1677
Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompences of the future state
William Bates
1676
Considerations on the universality and uniformity of the theocracy
William Knox
1796
Continual praise
Theodore B. Romeyn
1861
Contribution to a knowledge of the North American fresh-water ostracoda included in the families cytheridæ and cyprididæ
Richard Worthy Sharpe
1897
Contribution to our knowledge of the marine fauna of the Falkland Islands
Edith M. Musgrave
1898
Controversy on the Chinese translation of the words God and spirit
S. Wells Williams
1878
Conversations on the attributes of God
Leonard Crocker Bowles
1831