THIS BELIEVING WORLD
A Simple Account of the
Great Religions of Mankind
BY
LEWIS BROWNE
Author of
“STRANGER THAN FICTION: A SHORT HISTORY OF THE JEWS”
WITH MORE THAN SEVENTY
ILLUSTRATIONS AND ANIMATED
MAPS DRAWN BY THE AUTHOR
NEW YORK
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1930
To
H. G. WELLS
| Illustration | Page |
|---|---|
| Jerusalem Sleeps | 17 |
| Mountains That Roared and Belched Lava | 31 |
| With Those Amulets the Savage Was Not Afraid | 37 |
| This Was the First Church Built | 39 |
| Dead Bodies Were Taboo | 41 |
| Agriculture Was a Matter of Religion | 46 |
| The Idol | 48 |
| The God in the Sky Saw All | 52 |
| Stonehenge | 62 |
| Babylonia | 66 |
| The Great Mother Goddesses | 69 |
| Ancient Egypt | 80 |
| Pyramids by the Nile | 84 |
| Ancient Greece | 90 |
| Men Fled to the Jungles | 128 |
| What Happened in India | 135 |
| Buddah Was Seated Beneath a Banyan Tree | 138 |
| How Buddhism Spread | 149 |
| Shiva | 157 |
| Idols Grotesque Beyond Words | 164 |
| King-Fu-Tze | 177 |
| A Confucian Temple | 182 |
| A “Professor of Taoism” | 190 |
| A Chinese Buddha | 192 |
| A Chinese Altar | 193 |
| Zoroaster Seeks Salvation | 202 |
| The Wanderings of Zoroaster | 207 |
| The Turanians Were Bedouin Raiders | 209 |
| The Prophet of Iran | 211 |
| The Ahriman Dragon | 214 |
| Here Go the Hebrews | 225 |
| The Exodus | 227 |
| What the Hebrews Built in Egypt | 228 |
| In the Wilderness | 230 |
| The Bridge Between the Empires | 234 |
| The Divided Kingdom | 237 |
| Jeremiah | 241 |
| By the Waters of Babylon | 243 |
| The Man From Galilee | 260 |
| The Path of Jesus | 269 |
| The Savior-Gods | 278 |
| Saul of Tarsus | 280 |
| The Wanderings of Paul | 282 |
| Christianity in 110 A. D. | 287 |
| Christianity After Constantine | 290 |
| A Priestess of Bridget | 295 |
| Mohammed Was a Lowly Camel Boy | 308 |
| The Desert | 311 |
| Mohammed Sat in the Bazaars and Preached | 316 |
| Mohammed Returns to Mecca | 324 |
| On the Way to Mecca | 329 |
| The Shrine of a Desert Saint | 331 |