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 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

• Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru  by Albert Réville
• 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)
• Rig Veda Americanus; Sacred Songs of the Ancient Mexicans, With a Gloss in Nahuatl  by Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837-1899)

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)
• The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics  by Laozi and James Legge, transl. (1815-1897)

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 Children of Odin  by Padraic Colum (1881-1972)
• The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries  by W. Y. Evans-Wentz (1878-1965)
• Myths of the Norsemen  by H. A. Guerber (1859-1929)
• Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 12 - The Edda, Volume 1 - The Divine Mythology of the North  by L. Winifred Faraday (1872-)
• Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 - The Edda, Volume 2 - The Heroic Mythology of the North  by L. Winifred Faraday (1872-)
• The Religion of the Ancient Celts  by J.A. MacCulloch (1868-1950)
• The Witch-cult in Western Europe  by Margaret Alice Murray (1863-1963)

Near and Middle East

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