Influences of ancient Hinduism on early Christianity/ A.L.Herman

Chapter One: Influences and Influencing
Something About Influences
Thoreau, Tolstoi and Gandhi:
The West Influences the East
Gautama the Buddha and Barlaam and Josaphat:
The East Influences the West
Philosophic Intellectual Influences
Religious Intellectual Influences
Religious Absolutism and Religious Relativism
CONCLUSIO>
Chapter Two: Religions as Games
Something About Assumptions
Philosophical Assumptions
Psychological Assumptions
Something About Games: The Prescription
FOR Liberation from Suffering
Game Questions and the Joy of Games
The Five Noble Truths of Buddhism
Something About Interpreted Paradigms
Game Theory and Models
The Influences of Vedism and Brahmanism
ON Hinduism
Hinduism: Prescriptions, Games and Influences
About Influences, Again
Conclusion
Chapter Three: The Harappan Religious Game
The Harappan Religion 88
The Origin and History of the
Indus Valley Civilization
Civicide: The Decline and Fall of the Harappans
The Worship of the Harappan God Siva
Something About Sacred Trees and Baths
Something About Mystery Religions, Piays,
Games and Movies
The Blurring of the Secular and the Sacred
Votive Religions
Mystery Religions
A Harappan Mystery Religion:
Three Interpretations
A Harappan Mystery Religion:
A Philosophic Reconstruction
Conclusion
Chapter Four: The Dionysian Religious Game
The Dionysian Religion
The Origins and History of Dionysos
The Worship of the Greek Savior Dionysos
The Bacchae of Euripides
The Influence of the Harappan Religion
ON THE Dionysian Religion
Ten Crucial Similarities Between the Harappan
Religion and the Dionysian Religion
Conclusion
Chapter Five: The Christian Religious Game
The Christian Religion 165
Christians' Beliefs through Pagan Eyes
The Christian Myth of the Second Century
On the True Doctrine of Celsus
Paul, Corinth and Dionysos
Paul Among the Corinthians: Magic and Mystery
The Influence of the Dionysian Religion
ON THE Christian Religion
Ten Crucial Similarities Between the
Dionysian Religion and the Christian Religion
Conclusion
Chapter Six: Influences, Questions, and Problems
Something About Transitivity
Causally Transitive Influences
Three Problems about Religious Influences
The Problem That Similarity Does Not
Imply Dependence: An Empirical Problem
The Problem of Causal Transitivity:
A Logical Problem
The Problem of Who Cares:
A Practical Problem
The Problem ofReligious Relativism Revisitec
Conclusion