Great Events in Religion
Cover -- Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History, Volume 1: Prehistory to AD 600 -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Alphabetical List of Entries -- Volume 1: Prehistory to AD 600 -- Topical List of Entries -- Volume 1: Prehistory to AD 600 -- Preface -- Int...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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ABC-CLIO, LLC
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Show volumes/articles. |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: Curta, Florin: Great Events in Religion: an Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History [3 Volumes]. - Santa Barbara : ABC-CLIO, LLC,c2016. - 9781610695657 |
| Summary: | Cover -- Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History, Volume 1: Prehistory to AD 600 -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Alphabetical List of Entries -- Volume 1: Prehistory to AD 600 -- Topical List of Entries -- Volume 1: Prehistory to AD 600 -- Preface -- Introduction: Encyclopedias and the Modern Understanding of Religion -- Introduction to Volume 1 -- The Encyclopedia: Prehistory to AD 600 -- First Burials Revealing the Beliefs in the Afterlife at Shanidar Cave, Iraq (ca. 60,000 BC) First Recorded Burial of Homo neanderthalensis at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France (ca. 60,000 BC) -- Venus of Willendorf (21,000 BC) -- First Attestation of a Skull Cult at Mas d'Azil, France (ca. 15,000 to 10,000 BC) -- Establishment of Göbekli Tepe, the Oldest Human-Made Place of Worship Yet Discovered (10th Millennium BC) -- Discovery of Çatal Höyük, Turkey (Major Cult Site of the Neolithic Period, 7500-5700 BC) -- First Temple at Eridu (ca. 4500-3600 BC) -- Building of the Anu Ziggurat in Uruk (4th Millennium BC) Establishment of the Bronze Age Sanctuary and Burial Ground at Stonehenge, U.K. (3100-1100 BC) -- Ritual Use of Alcohol in Ancient Religions (ca. 3rd Millennium BC-Present) -- Building of the Egyptian Pyramids (2700-1514 BC) -- Reign of Naram-Sin of Akkad (2254-2218 BC), the First Ruler to Think of Himself as God -- King Ur-Nammu's Building of the Great Ziggurat in Ur in Honor of Nanna/Sin (21st Century BC) -- Writing of the Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2100 BC) -- Abraham's Leadership of the Early Hebrews (2nd Millennium BC) -- Zoroaster and the Establishment of Zoroastrianism (1750-1000 BC) Aaron's Priesthood (ca. 1600-1200 BC) -- First-Known Celebration of the Dionysian Mysteries, Thebes (ca. 1500 BC) -- Composition of the Hindu Upanishads (1500-600 BC) -- Moses's Leadership of the Hebrew People (ca. 15th-13th Centuries BC) -- Establishment of the Oracle of Delphi (ca. 1400 BC-AD 380) -- Akhenaten's Rejection of Polytheism (ca. 1348 BC) -- Adad-Nirari I, King of Assyria, Orders Inscriptions in Which He Claims Gods Called Him to War-First Use of Religion to Justify War (Early 13th Century BC) -- Ancient Chinese Oracle Bones (ca. 1200-1045 BC) Saul as the First King of Israel (ca. 1000 BC) -- Reign of King David (ca. 1000-960 BC) -- Building of the First Temple on Mount Moriah-Solomon's Temple (965-927 BC) -- Building of the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (8th Century BC) -- Olympic Games (773 BC-AD 339) -- Building of the Temple of Vesta in Rome under Numa Pompilius (715-673 BC) -- Numa Pompilius Establishes the Religious Institutions of Rome (r. 715-673 BC) -- The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Homeric Hymns (ca. 7th-5th Centuries BC) -- Building of the Etemenanki Ziggurat in Honor of Marduk in Babylon (6th Century BC) Building of the Temple of Aphrodite in Corinth (6th Century BC) |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 1610695666 |