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
The hymn to Demeter and her sanctuary at Eleusis
George E. Mylonas
1942
The iamge [sic] of God, or layemans booke
Roger Hutchinson
1573
The idea of God
George R. Gebauer
1896
The identity of Popery with paganism
Joseph Roberts
1840
The image of God or boke of a true Christian
Roger Hutchinson
1580
The image of God, or laie ma[n]s booke
Roger Hutchinson
1550
The image of God, or laie mans boke
Roger Hutchinson
1560
The immediate vision of God
C. A. Bartol
1860
The immutability of God
Ebenezer Porter
1829
The immutability of the divine word
Daniel Moore
1860
The importance of divine knowledge
Samuel Worcester
1805
The importance of the doctrine of the unity of God
J. R. Beard
1842
The increase of the kingdom of Christ
William Apess
1831
The inculcation of humanity to animals
Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
1877
The indwelling Christ
James Mann Campbell
1895
The inevitable God
John White Chadwick
1889
The infernal and the celestial love
Octavius Brooks Frothingham, N.Y.) Third Congregational Unitarian Society (New York, N.Y.) Lyric Hall (New York
1869
The influence of heredity and contagion on the propagation of tuberculosis
A. Lydtin
1883
The inrichment of the Weald of Kent, or, A direction to the husbandman for the true ordering, manuring, and inriching of all the grounds within the wealds of Kent and Sussex
Gervase Markham
1683
The inspector
Religious Tract Society
1819
The interest of divine providence in the government of the world
John Goodman
1683
The interests of truth and virtue
John Duncan
1775
The invocation of saints, a Romish sin
Walter Farquhar Hook
1847
The inward kingdom of God, or, The varied dealings of God with an elect soul
John Kay
1842