Bredholt Christensen Lisbeth, Hammer Olav, Warburton David. The Handbook of Religions in Ancient Europe. Acumen,2013. — 456 p.. 2013

“Religion” is an amorphous concept which has been defined in numerous ways, without any scholarly consensus in sight. Its main features seem to us to be (a) having socially shared activities which bear no direct relation to subsistence, (b) demanding some specific attitude towards death and/or the dead, and (c) generally including a discourse including entities which are beyond this world. Whatever it is, religion seems to be uniquely linked to the human race. It was in Europe and the Middle East that the culture of our immediate ancestors first combined the attributes which are the necessary precursors of religion - burials, plastic art and paintings. It was the religions of groups as diverse as the Greeks and the Scandinavians which seem to have given birth to important traits of our civilization as we define it today. Thus the history and prehistory of Europe is fundamental to the history of the human race and religion - and the history of religion is fundamental to Europe.

Books and textbooks on the discipline History of religions:

1. Behera Maguni C. (ed.). The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Readings on Tribe and Religions in India: Emerging Negotiations. Routledge,2024. — 502 p. - 2024 ãîä
2. Brodd Jeffrey, Little L., Nystrom B., Platzner R., Shek R., Stiles E.. Invitation to World Religions. 4th edition. — Oxford University Press,2022. — 1196 p. - 2022 ãîä
3. Ambasciano L.. An Unnatural History of Religions: Academia, Post-Truth and the Quest for Scientific Knowledge. Bloomsbury Academic,2019. — 280 p. - 2019 ãîä
4. Aldhouse-Green Miranda. Sacred Britannia: The Gods and Rituals of Roman Britain. Thames & Hudson,2018. — 256 p. - 2018 ãîä
5. Bell Michael. City of the Good: Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What is Right. Princeton University Press,2018. — 360 p. - 2018 ãîä
6. Bhayro Siam, Rider Catherine (eds.). Demons and Illness from Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period. Leiden, Boston: Brill,2017. — xiv, 434 p. - 2017 ãîä
7. Blakely S. (ed.). Gods, Objects, and Ritual Practice. Lockwood Press,2017. — 371 p. - 2017 ãîä
8. Bommas M., Harrisson J., Roy Ph. (Eds.). Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World. Bloomsbury Academic,2012. — 312 p. - 2012 ãîä
9. Ahearne-Kroll Stephen P., Holloway Paul A., Kelhoffer James A. (eds.). Women and Gender in Ancient Religions: Interdisciplinary Approaches. JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck),2010. — 518 p. - 2010 ãîä
10. Annus Amar (ed.). Divination and Interpretation of Signs in the Ancient World. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,2010. — viii, 352 p. - 2010 ãîä
11. Cox Robert E.. Creating the Soul Body: The Sacred Science of Immortality. Inner Traditions,2008. — 288 p. - 2008 ãîä
12. Clothey Fred W.. Religion in India: a Historical Introduction. Routledge,2007. — 300 p. - 2007 ãîä
13. Asad Talal. Formation of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. Stanford University Press,2003. — 269 p. - 2003 ãîä
14. Benko Stephen. The Virgin Goddess Studies in the Pagan and Christian Roots of Mariology. Leiden: Brill, 2003 - 2003 ãîä
15. Carroll Brett. The Routledge Historical Atlas of Religion in America. Routledge,2000. — 144 p. - 2000 ãîä
16. Burkert Walter. Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions. 3rd Edition. — Harvard University Press,1998. — 272 p. - 1998 ãîä
17. Clarke Peter et al. (eds.). The World's Religions. Routledge,1988. — 995 p. - 1988 ãîä
18. Asimov Isaac. Words in Genesis. Houghton Mifflin,1962. — 257 p. - 1962 ãîä