Paganism (Bookshelf)

Paganism (Latin paganus=villager, rustic). Religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions, including but not limited to the ancient religions of Egypt, China, classical Greece and Rome, Assyria, and Babylonia, as well as studies of rites and rituals among small-scale non-Western populations. See also the Mythology Bookshelf for additional titles.

General

• Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning  by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929)
  
• The Golden Bough  by Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941)
  
• Astral Worship  by J.H. Hill
  
• Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion  by David Hume (1711-1776)
  
• Myth, Ritual and Religion – Vol. 1  by Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
  
• The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics  by Laozi and James Legge, transl. (1815-1897)
  
• The Old Pagan Civilizations  by John Lord (1810-1894)
  
• Pantheism, Its Story and Significance  by J. Allanson Picton (1832-1910)
  

Africa

• Legends of the Gods; The Egyptian Texts  by E.A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934)
  

The Americas

• Rig Veda Americanus; Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl  by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837-1899)
  
• The Mountain Chant, A Navajo Ceremony  by Washington Matthews (1843-1905)
  
• The Mide’wiwin or “Grand Medicine Society” of the Ojibwa  by Walter James Hoffman (1846-1899)
  
• Unwritten Literature of Hawaii; The Sacred Songs of the Hula  by Nathaniel Bright Emerson (1839-1915)
  
• Representation of Deities of the Maya Manuscripts  by Paul Schellhas (1859?-1945)
  

Asia

• The Pagan Tribes of Borneo  by Charles Hose (1863-1929) and William McDougall (1871-1938)
  
• Religions of Ancient China  by Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935)
  

Classical Roman and Greek Mythology

• The Religion of Ancient Rome  by Cyril Bailey (1871-1957)
  
• Bulfinch’s Mythology: the Age of Fable  by Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867)
  
• The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome  by Jesse Benedict Carter (1872-1917)
  
• Religion and Art in Ancient Greece  by Ernest Arthur Gardner
  

Europe

• The Religion of the Ancient Celts  by J.A. MacCulloch (1868-1950)
  

Near and Middle East

• The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria  by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches (1856-1934)