Myth And Ritual

Author : Robert Alan Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Myth
ISBN : 9780198724704

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Myth by Robert Alan Segal Pdf

Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud, Claude Levi-Strauss, Albert Camus, and Roland Barthes, Segal uses the famous ancient myth of Adonis to analyse their individual approaches and theories. In this new edition, he not only considers the future study of myth, but also considers the interactions of myth theory with cognitive science, the implications of the myth of Gaia, and the differences between story-telling and myth. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Kwang-chih CHANG,Kwang-chih Chang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780674029408

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ART MYTH AND RITUAL P by Kwang-chih CHANG,Kwang-chih Chang Pdf

A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. Questioning Marx's concept of an "Asiatic" mode of production, Wittfogel's "hydraulic hypothesis," and cultural-materialist theories on the importance of technology, K. C. Chang builds an impressive counterargument, one which ranges widely from recent archaeological discoveries to studies of mythology, ancient Chinese poetry, and the iconography of Shang food vessels.

Author : Alan Watts
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1971-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0807013757

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Myth and Ritual In Christianity by Alan Watts Pdf

“Our main object will be to describe one of the most incomparably beautiful myths that has ever flowered from the mind of man, or from the unconscious processes which shape it and which are in some sense more than man.… This is, furthermore, to be a description and not a history of Christian Mythology.… After description, we shall attempt an interpretation of the myth along the general lines of the philosophia perennis, in order to bring out the truly catholic or universal character of the symbols, and to share the delight of discovering a fountain of wisdom in a realm where so many have long ceased to expect anything but a desert of platitudes.” —from the Prologue

Author : Joseph Eddy Fontenrose
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520019245

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The Ritual Theory of Myth by Joseph Eddy Fontenrose Pdf

Author : Gabriela Chiciudean,Rodica Gabriela Chira,Emilia Ivancu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527523432

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Myth, Music and Ritual by Gabriela Chiciudean,Rodica Gabriela Chira,Emilia Ivancu Pdf

Divided into two parts, this volume includes contributions focused on both myth and some of its contemporary reflections (Part I) and the connection between myth, music and ritual (Part II). The fifteen contributions gathered here are authored by academics and researchers from Brazil, France, Poland, Mexico, South Africa and Romania. They focus on a variety of subjects, including folklore, literature, classical and traditional music, science-fiction, philosophy, and religion, among others. The volume operates with an awareness of the capital role the study of the imaginary, with all its implications, is playing in the contemporary world.

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Binker North
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Mythology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044054090790

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Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang Pdf

Myth, Ritual, and Religion is a classic mythology studies text by Andrew Lang. When this book first appeared (1886), the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and opposed by the author. In Science, as on the Turkish throne of old, "Amurath to Amurath succeeds"; the philological theories of religion and myth have now yielded to anthropological methods. The centre of the anthropological position was the "ghost theory" of Mr. Herbert Spencer, the "Animistic" theory of Mr. E. R. Tylor, according to whom the propitiation of ancestral and other spirits leads to polytheism, and thence to monotheism. In the second edition (1901) of this work the author argued that the belief in a "relatively supreme being," anthropomorphic was as old as, and might be even older, than animistic religion. When this book first appeared (1886), the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and opposed by the author. In Science, as on the Turkish throne of old, "Amurath to Amurath succeeds"; the philological theories of religion and myth have now yielded to anthropological methods. The centre of the anthropological position was the "ghost theory" of Mr. Herbert Spencer, the "Animistic" theory of Mr. E. R. Tylor, according to whom the propitiation of ancestral and other spirits leads to polytheism, and thence to monotheism. In the second edition (1901) of this work the author argued that the belief in a "relatively supreme being," anthropomorphic was as old as, and might be even older, than animistic religion. This theory he exhibited at greater length, and with a larger collection of evidence, in his Making of Religion. Since 1901, a great deal of fresh testimony as to what Mr. Howitt styles the "All Father" in savage and barbaric religions has accrued. As regards this being in Africa, the reader may consult the volumes of the New Series of the Journal of the Anthropological Institute, which are full of African evidence, not, as yet, discussed, to my knowledge, by any writer on the History of Religion. As late as Man, for July, 1906, No. 66, Mr. Parkinson published interesting Yoruba legends about Oleron, the maker and father of men, and Oro, the Master of the Bull Roarer.

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368323127

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Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang Pdf

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Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781609776701

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Myth, Ritual, and Religion by Andrew Lang Pdf

Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). He also wrote Ballades in Blue China (1880) and Rhymes la Mode (1884).

Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139493031

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Myth, Ritual and the Oral by Jack Goody Pdf

In Myth, Ritual and the Oral Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy, subjects that have long been a touchstone in anthropological thinking. Combining classic papers with recent unpublished work, this volume brings together some of the most important essays written on these themes in the past half century, representative of a lifetime of critical engagement and research. In characteristically clear and accessible style, Jack Goody addresses fundamental conceptual schemes underpinning modern anthropology, providing potent critiques of current theoretical trends. Drawing upon his highly influential work on the LoDagaa myth of the Bagre, Goody challenges structuralist and functionalist interpretations of oral 'literature', stressing the issues of variation, imagination and creativity, and the problems of methodology and analysis. These insightful, and at times provocative, essays will stimulate fresh debate and prove invaluable to students and teachers of social anthropology.

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : EAN:4064066398811

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Myth, Ritual and Religion (Vol. 1&2) by Andrew Lang Pdf

"Myth, Ritual and Religion" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by a Scottish author Andrew Lang first published in 1887, in which he explained the "irrational" elements of mythology as survivals from more primitive forms. This carefully crafted e-artnow ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents._x000D_ Volume 1:_x000D_ Systems of Mythology_x000D_ New System Proposed_x000D_ The Mental Condition of Savages – Confusion With Nature – Totemism_x000D_ The Mental Condition of Savages – Magic – Metamorphosis – Metaphysic – Psychology_x000D_ Nature Myths_x000D_ Non-aryan Myths of the Origin of the World and of Man_x000D_ Indo-aryan Myths – Sources of Evidence_x000D_ Indian Myths of the Origin of the World and of Man_x000D_ Greek Myths of the Origin of the World and Man_x000D_ Greek Cosmogonic Myths_x000D_ Savage Divine Myths_x000D_ Volume 2:_x000D_ Gods of the Lowest Races_x000D_ American Divine Myths_x000D_ Mexican Divine Myths_x000D_ The Mythology of Egypt_x000D_ Gods of the Aryans of India_x000D_ Greek Divine Myths:_x000D_ Apollo_x000D_ Artemis_x000D_ Dionysus_x000D_ Athene_x000D_ Hermes_x000D_ Demeter_x000D_ Heroic and Romantic Myths...

Author : Walter Burkert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0520047702

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Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual by Walter Burkert Pdf

"Tantalizingly rich . . . this is a splendid book."--Greece and Rome "Burken relegates his learned documentation to the notes and writes in a lively and fluent style. The book is recommended as a major contribution to the interpretation of ancient Greek myth and ritual. The breadth alone of Burkert's learning renders his book indispensable."--Classical Outlook "Impressive. . . founded on a striking knowledge of the complex evidence (literary, epigraphical, archaeological, comparative) for this extensive subject. Burkert offers a rare combination of exact scholarship with imagination and even humor. A brilliant book, in which . . .the reader can see at every point what is going on in the author's mind--and that is never uninteresting, and rarely unimportant."--Times Literary Supplement "Burkert's work is of such magnitude and depth that it may even contribute to that most difficult of tasks, defining myth, ritual, and religion. . [He] locates his work in the context of culture and the historv of ideas, and he is not hesitant to draw on sociology and biology. Consequently his work is of significance for philosophers, historians, and even theologians, as well as for classicists and historians of Greek culture. His hypotheses are courageous and his conclusions are bold; both establish standards for methodology as well as results. "--Religious Studies Review

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015062230894

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Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang Pdf

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Mythology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044054090782

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Myth, Ritual and Religion by Andrew Lang Pdf

Author : R. Po-chia Hsia
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300047460

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The Myth of Ritual Murder by R. Po-chia Hsia Pdf

From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual murders of Christian children, whose blood purportedly played a crucial part in Jewish magical rites. In this engrossing book R. Po-Chia Hsia traces the rise and decline of ritual murder trials during that period. Using sources ranging from Christian and Kabbalistic treatises to judicial records and popular pamphlets, Hsia examines the religious sources of the idea of child sacrifice and blood symbolism and reconstructs the political context of ritual murder trials against the Jews. "This volume combines clarity of thinking, elegance of style, and exemplary scholarly attention to detail with intellectual sobriety and human compassion."--Jerome Friedman, Sixteenth Century Journal "Hsia has... succeeded in turning established knowledge to illuminatingly new purposes."--G.R. Elton, New York Review of Books "This meticulously researched and unusually perceptive book is social and intellectual history at its best."--Library Journal "A fresh perspective on an old problem by a major new talent."--Steven Ozment, Harvard University R. Po-chia Hsia, professor of history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, is also the author of Society and Religion in Münster, 1535-1618

Author : Andrew Lang
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789359323862

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Myth, Ritual And Religion Vol. 1 by Andrew Lang Pdf

Andrew Lang, a Scottish anthropologist and folklorist, wrote the landmark work "Myth, Ritual, and Religion," Volume 1. This work contributes significantly to anthropology and religious studies. In this volume, Lang investigates the interdependence of myth, ritual, and theology in a variety of cultures and communities. He delves into myths and rituals from various civilizations, including ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt, and indigenous cultures. Lang studies how myths and rituals can commonly play an important role in molding a society's religious beliefs and practices. He investigates the symbolic value of myths and rituals, emphasizing their role in understanding the mysteries of life, death, and the natural world. Lang's work is notable for its comparative technique, which connects nations in order to discover universal themes and patterns in myth and ritual. He contends that these traditions and ceremonies are not merely historical relics, but they continue to influence present religious’ practices and ideals. Some stories are brutal and weird, while others creep up on you and draw you in slowly. With an eye-catching new cover and professionally typeset copy, this edition of "Myth, Ritual, and Religion Vol. 1" is both current and intelligible.