[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Religion and philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion) › [The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908) › c7.65 # The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c7.65 The Religion of the Veda: The Ancient Religion of India (from Rig-Veda to Upanishads) c7.65 - **Language:** English ### [c7.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.65) You may remember how skilfully Kingsley’s novel, \*Hypatia\* pictures Greek religion when it confronts in final struggle, already in the throes of death, the growing belief of the future, as still the Homeric theology; that is, crude anthropomorphism, dashed with occasional but troubled visions of better things. The real rivals of Christianity in the centuries after Christ were Persian forms of religion: Mithraism and Manicheism. Of Mithraism Ernest Renan once said that if the world had not been Christianised it would have been Mithraised; and Manicheism, dualistic, exhaustively Gnostic, with its superb colouring and its appealing asceticism, proved for a time an even more dangerous rival of Christianity. - [Previous: c7.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.64) - [Next: c7.66](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.66) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.bloomfield-1908.c7.65) · Pramāṇa