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Paschal mystery --- Jesus Christ --- Jesus Christ --- Jesus Christ --- Descent into hell. --- Passion. --- Resurrection.

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The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death's inevitability into a transcendent freedom beyond individual limitations. "This is a classic work in analytical psychology that offers crucial insights on the meaning of death symbolism (and its inevitably accompanying rebirth and resurrection symbolism) as part of the great theme of initiation, of which [Henderson] is the world's foremost psychological interpreter. This material is really the next step after the hero myth that Joseph Campbell has made so popular, and provides an understanding of how not to use the hero myth in an inflated way as a psychology of mastery, but as an attainment progressively to be died beyond. [Henderson] is helped by the presence of Maud Oakes, who is a trained anthropologist with exquisite taste in her choice of mythic materials and respect for their original contexts."--John Beebe

Resurrection --- Regeneration (Theology) --- Death --- Death --- Religious aspects --- Mythology. --- Adonis. --- Aphrodite and Adonis. --- Balder. --- Baptism. --- Chuang Tzu. --- Compassion in Buddhism. --- Drowning. --- Eleusinian Mysteries. --- Ereshkigal. --- Evergreen tree. --- Fenris Wolf. --- Fertility myths. --- Gilgamesh. --- Heracles. --- Hermes. --- Horus. --- Initiation. --- Izanagi. --- Kaliyuga. --- Karma. --- Magic flight of shamans. --- Mistletoe. --- Nachiketas and Yama. --- Old Testament. --- Osiris. --- Persephone. --- Ragnarok. --- Reincarnation. --- Shamanism. --- Shiva. --- Symbols. --- Tammuz. --- Thoth. --- Vishnu.

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Invoking a concept as simple as it is brilliant, F. E. Peters has taken the basic texts of the three related--and competitive--religious systems we call Judaism, Christianity, and Islam and has juxtaposed them in a topical and parallel arrangement according to the issues that most concerned all these "children of Abraham." Through these extensive passages, and the author's skillful connective commentary, the three traditions are shown with their similarities sometimes startlingly underlined and their well-known differences now more profoundly exposed. What emerges from this unique and ambitious work is a panorama of belief, practice, and sensibility that will broaden our understanding of our religious and political roots in a past that is, by these communities' definition, still the present. The hardcover edition of the work is bound in one volume, and in the paperback version the identical material is broken down into three smaller but self-contained books. The first, "From Covenant to Community," includes texts and comments on the covenant and early history of the Chosen People and their post-Exilic reconstruction; the career and message of the Messiah Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad; the concept of holiness and of a "kingdom of priests"; and, finally, the notions of church and state and the state as a church. Throughout the work we hear an amazing variety of voices, some familiar, some not, all of them central to the primary and secondary canons of their own tradition: alongside the Scriptural voice of God are the words of theologians, priests, visionaries, lawyers, rulers and the ruled. The work ends, as does the same author's now classic Children of Abraham, in what Peters calls the "classical period," that is, before the great movements of modernism and reform that were to transform Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Judaism. --- Christianity. --- Islam. --- Abomination of Desolation. --- Abraham. --- Almsgiving. --- Antipater. --- Apocalypses. --- Apostles. --- Apostolic tradition. --- Assyria. --- Baptism. --- Barnabas. --- Beatitudes. --- Bethlehem. --- Body of Christ. --- Chosen People. --- Circumcision. --- Conversion. --- Covenant. --- Deacons. --- Diaspora. --- Dietary laws. --- Ebionites. --- Egyptians. --- Esotericists. --- Eucharist. --- Excommunication. --- Forgiveness. --- Gentiles. --- Gethsemane. --- Gospel. --- Hanukka. --- Hasmoneans. --- Heavenly Table. --- High Priest. --- Holy War. --- Idols. --- Imamites. --- Israelites. --- Jerusalem. --- Jewish Christians. --- Julius Caesar. --- Letter to Diognetus. --- Levites. --- Maccabees. --- Marcion. --- Medina. --- Monarchy. --- Nazarenes. --- Original sin. --- Passover. --- Persians. --- Pharaoh. --- Ptolemies. --- Qumran. --- Remnant. --- Resurrection of the dead.