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
Voices of the dumb creation
John Collins
1892
Voices of the soul answered in God
John Reid
1866
Voyage du monde de Descartes
Gabriel Daniel
1692
Walking by faith
Andrew Fuller
1827
War against God and his kingdom
Henry Ward Beecher
1886
Warplanes of the world
John William Ransom Taylor
1960
Waters' patent feed water heater and lime and sediment collector, for steam boilers
Waters Patent Heater Co
1872
What and where is God?
H. B. Philbrook
1887
What is God?
Duren J. H. Ward
1896
What is truth?
Andrew P. Peabody, American Unitarian Association
1838
What is vital force? or, A short and comprehensive sketch
Richard Fawcett Battye
1877
What ritual has God appointed?
James S. Pollock
1865
What the unchangable God is, and how all people may know him, and in what he is worshiped and served
George Fox
1685
What the unchangable [sic] God is, and how all people may know him, and in what he is worshiped and served
George Fox
1685
Where is my dog?
Charles Josiah Adams
1892
Who is the Lord God?
Robert Taylor
1859
Wholesome truths
Religious Tract Society
1839
Why God employs feeble means to produce great effects
American Tract Society
1832
Why Protestant missionaries in China should unite in using the term "Tien Chu" for God
Henry Blodgett
1882
Wild animals in captivity
John Fortuné Nott
1887
Will all men be saved?
H. L. Hastings
1864
Wisdom, which cometh down from above, and as communicated through mediums
James Jones Wilmer
1804
Wisdomes character and counterfeit
Nathaniel Hardy
1656
Wonderful nests
John George Wood
1887