<div class="description">
<dl><dd>Includes bibliographical references and index</dd>
<dd>Nature and the state make their impression on religion -- earliest systems -- Life after death -- the sojourn in the tomb -- death makes its impression on religion -- Realms of the dead -- the pyramid texts -- the ascent to the sky -- Realms of the dead -- the earliest celestial hereafter -- The Osirianization of the hereafter -- Emergence of the moral sense -- moral worthiness and the hereafter -- scepticism and the problem of suffering -- The social forces make their impression on religion -- the earliest social regeneration -- Popularization of the old royal hereafter -- triumph of Osiris -- conscience and the book of the dead -- magic and morals -- The imperial age -- the world state makes its impression on religion -- earliest monotheism -- Ikhnaton -- The age of personal piety -- sacerdotalism and final decadence</dd></dl><br>Subjects:</div>
<div class="fn value">
Breasted, James Henry, 1865-1935</div>
Internet Archive identifier