Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, Volume 6: Fiction - Hyksos

The volume opens with a substantial treatment of Fiction, examining imaginative narrative among primitive, Oriental, Greco-Roman, medieval, and modern societies and considering its relationship to religion, myth, morality, and cultural transmission. Subsequent entries address Fiji, Filial Piety, Finno-Ugrians, and ancient Finnish religion, including kinship, ancestor traditions, spirits, deities, ritual, and mythology. Articles on Fire and Fire-Gods, Fire-Walking, First-Born, First Cause, and Firstfruits explore ritual fire, sacrificial customs, primogeniture, philosophical causality, and offerings of agricultural produce.

Other major subjects include Flowers, Foeticide, Folklore, Food, Food for the Dead, Forgiveness, Form, Formosa, Fortune, Fosterage, Foundation, Fountain of Youth, Fravashi, Freemasonry, Free-Thought, Free Will, and Friendly Societies. Particularly extensive comparative articles examine food customs and prohibitions, funerary offerings, forgiveness in Hebrew and Christian thought, philosophical theories of freedom and causation, and conceptions of fortune in Chinese, Greek, Iranian, Jewish, and Roman traditions. Overall, this portion exemplifies the encyclopaedia’s interdisciplinary method, drawing together textual evidence, ethnography, religious practice, philosophy, law, mythology, and social history.