History of China—The literature of the religion—The state religion of ancient China—Heaven—The spirits—Ancestors—Confucius—His life—His doctrine—Taoism—Buddhism in China
[CHAPTER IX]
THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT EGYPT
History and literature—1. Animal worship—Theories accounting for it—2. The great Gods—They also are local—Mythology—Dynasties of gods—Ra—Osiris—Ptah—Was the earliest religion monotheistic?—Syncretism—Pantheism—Worship—3. The doctrine of the other life—Treatment of the dead—The spirit in the under-world—The Book of the Dead—Conclusion
PART III
THE SEMITIC GROUP
[CHAPTER X]
THE SEMITIC RELIGION
Home of the Semites—Character of the race—Their early religious ideas—Difference between Semitic and Aryan religion
[CHAPTER XI]
CANAANITES AND PHENICIANS
The Religion of the Canaanites—The Phenicians—Their gods—Astral deities of Phenicia—Influence of Phenician art
[CHAPTER XII]
ISRAEL