Crisis in Early Religion

1 Crisis in Early Religion – an Introduction.- 2 The crisis of authentic Buddhavacana in Tipiṭaka: Is Early Buddhist Sangha’s Politics Responsible?.- 3 Prajñāpāramitā as a crisis-marker in Buddhism.- 4 The involvement of Buddhist monks in the court intrigues in China and Japan during the fourth to the eighth centuries.- 5 The Ugaritic Combat Myth and Egypto-Hittite Relations in the Late Bronze Age.- 6 Crises in the Hittite Religion: Examples of the Prayer of Kantuzili and Plague Prayers of Muršili II.- 7 Divine justice and human competition: signs of crises in Archaic Greece.- 8 When oracles don’t come true: Oedipus Tyrannus and oracular crisis. - 9 ‘The Athenian 'plague' – religion, ‘rationality’, and ethics’.- 10 A crisis of ‘atheism’ in ancient Rome? On the perception of nonreligion as a threat in the Roman Empire.- 11 Crisis and transformation of Gnostic Christianity in late Roman and early Byzantine Egypt.