Analytical Contents

1. MOTIVES FOR THE REJECTION OF THE WORLD

Religion of India
Ideal Typical Constructs

2. ASCETICISM AND OF MYSTICISM

Idea of Super-worldly God
Ascetic and Mystic Rejections
Ascetic and Mystic Principles

3. DIRECTIONS OF THE REJECTION OF THE WORLD

Methodical Way of Life
Tensions of Religious Life
Tension to Family and Sibling
In-Group Ethic
Ethic of Religious Brotherhood
Sympathy to Suffering

4. THE ECONOMIC SPHERE

Primeval Religion
Impersonality of Economy
Salvation Religion
Religious Virtuoso
Escaping Paths of the Tension

5. THE POLITICAL SPHERE

Ancient Political Gods
Universal Religion
Reason of the State
Nonviolence Religion
Political Community
Problem of Death
Solutions of the Tension
Unbridgeable Viewpoints
Rationalism vs. Brotherhood
Revolution
Savior and Prophet

6. THE ARTISTIC SPHERE

Magical Religion
Ethical Rationalism
Artistic Salvation
Mysticism vs. Form
Psychological Affinity

7. THE EROTIC SPHERE

The Greatest Irrational Force
Orgiastic Religion
Pre-prophetic Marriage
Religious Rationalism
Eroticism
Erotic Salvation
Eroticism vs. Salvation Religion
Psychological Affinity
Mysticism vs. Eroticism
Asceticism vs. Eroticism
Quaker Ethic of Marriage

8. THE INTELLECTUAL SPHERE

The Greatest Tension
Empirical Rationalism vs. Religious Irrationality
Rational Thinkers
Priestly Education
Knowledge vs. Faith

9. WORLDVIEW AND CULTURAL VALUE

Images of the World
Imperfection of Culture
Problem of Cultural Value
Tension between Idea and Reality

10. THE THREE TYPES OF THEODICY

Dualism
Predestination
Karma
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