Jan de Vries: Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte / Einleitung – Vorgeschichtliche Perioden – Religiöse Grundlagen des Lebens – Seelen- und Geisterglaube – Macht und Kraft – Das Heilige und die Kultformen

Jan de Vries has been a Professor of History and Economics at the University of California at Berkeley since 1973 where he holds the Sidney Hellman Ehrman endowed chair in European history. De Vries has also served as Chair of the History Department, Dean of Social Sciences, and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. He has written 5 books, 65 published articles and book chapters, and 45 book reviews. In addition, he is co-editor of 3 books. He is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson and Guggenheim fellowships, among others; has held grants from NSF and NIH; and has held visiting fellowships to the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, and All Souls College, Oxford. He has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy,the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is the 2000 recipient of the A. H. Heineken Prize in History.

Frontmatter -- Kap. I.Allgemeine Erörterungen (

1-16) -- Kap. II.Die Quellen der germanischen Religion (

17-33) -- Kap. III.Geschichte der Forschung (

34-61) -- Kap. IV.Die vorgeschichtlichen Perioden (

62-117) -- Kap. V.Die Umwelt der heidnischen Germanen (

118-130) -- Kap. VI.Die religiösen Grundlagen des Menschenlebens (

131-152) -- Kap. VII.Seelen, Geister und Dämonen, Schicksalsmächte (

152-193) -- Kap.VIII. Macht und Kraft (

194-239) -- Kap IX. Das Heilige und die Kultformen -- Backmatter