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
On cruelty to brutes
James C. Whitten
1806
On earth peace, good will towards men, or, The civil, political, and religious means of establishing the kingdom of God on earth
George M. D. Edwards
1805
On hearing the word of God
Robert Hall
1822
On holy images
John of Damascus
1898
On natural theology
Thomas Chalmers
1857
On new or imperfectly-known species of Ostracoda, chiefly from New Zealand
George Stewardson Brady
1898
On parthenogenesis, or the successive production of procreating individuals from a single ovum
Richard Owen
1849
On prayer and divine aid
J. B. Estlin
1829
On public worship and the unity of God
Timothy Davis
1836
On some Foraminifera from the Abrohlos Bank
Henry Bowman Brady, William Kitchen Parker, T. Rupert Jones
1888
On the Darwinian hypothesis of sexual selection
Norman Douglas
1895
On the advantages of the cross, and of an humble resignation to the Divine will
Mahlon Day
1824
On the animal alkaloids, the ptomaines, lencomaines, and extractives in their pathological relations
William Aitken
1889
On the being and attributes of the Godhead as evidenced in creation
David Nelson
1872
On the composition of oxen, sheep, and pigs, and of their increase whilst fattening
J. B. Lawes
1861
On the dangers and inhuman use of the check-rein
American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
1870
On the existence and character of God
Charles Adolphus Row
1883
On the extent of the atonement
Thomas W. Jenkyn
1835
On the fauna of the Lower Carboniferous limestones of Spergen Hill, Ind
Robert Parr Whitfield
1882
On the glory of God
Charles Wentworth Upham
1832
On the good that may result to England and India from the establishment of "God save the queen" as a national anthem in Her Majesty's eastern empire
Frederick Kill Harford
1883
On the goodness of the supreme being
Christopher Smart
1756
On the humane prevention of rabies
Elizabeth Blackwell
1891
On the intimate structure of bone
John Quekett
1849