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 soul's ascension to God, by the steps of creation
Roberto Francesco Romolo Saint Bellarmino, H. Hall
1703
The soul's quest after God
Lyman Abbott
1897
The sounding voyce of the dread of Gods mighty power
Humphrey Smith
1658
The soveraign efficacy of divine providence
Urian Oakes
1682
The sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of men
Thomas Boston
1737
The sovereignty of God
Abraham Bodwell
1813
The sovereignty of God and the free agency of man
William Bullein Johnson
1842
The sovereignty of God explained and vindicated
Daniel Baker
1850
The sovereignty of God illustrated and improved
Charles Stovel
1846
The sovereignty of God in calamity
E. P. Rogers
1857
The sovereignty of God in the exercises of his mercy
Edward Wigglesworth
1741
The sovereignty of God, the sure and only stay of the Christian patriot in our national troubles
Henry A. Boardman
1862
The spirit of beauty
Henry W Parker
1888
The spirit of love
William Law
1752
The sportsman's dictionary : containing instructions for various methods to be observed in riding, hunting, fowling, setting, fishing, racing, farriery, hawking, breeding and feeding horses for the road and turf ..
Henry James Pye
1807
The story of the totem
Ronald Campbell Campbell-Johnston
1800
The story of the totem pole
Ruth Brindze
1951
The structural study of myth and totemism
Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth. Conference on Recent Anthropological Studies of Myth and Totemism
1967
The structure and growth of domesticated animals
Louis Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz
1873
The substance of a conference betwixt a German theosophist, and an Enghist divine
Dionysius Andreas Freher, British Library
1700
The substance of a discourse delivered in the new Methodist meeting house in John-Street, New-York
Joshua Soule
1818
The substance of a sermon on the Godhead of Christ
Thomas Coke
1785
The substance of a sermon, preached at the New-Chapel, City-Road, to the children of the Methodist Sunday-schools in London, and other young persons of both sexes, on Whit-Monday, May 25, 1801
Joseph Benson
1801
The supremacy of the Father asserted, or Eight arguments from scripture
Thomas Chubb
1715