Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001016017
Myth, Cosmos, and Society
Bruce Lincoln
Myth Cosmos And Society
Myth Cosmos And Society Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Myth Cosmos And Society book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Myth and Cosmos
John Middleton
Author : John Middleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015003578914
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The Truth of Myth
Tok Thompson,Gregory Allen Schrempp
Author : Tok Thompson,Gregory Allen Schrempp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : 9780190222789
The Truth of Myth by Tok Thompson,Gregory Allen Schrempp Pdf
"To the student of myth: This book attempts to provide a concise overview of the theoretical approaches to studying mythology, both in theory and in everyday life. Whether one is interested in a particular myth or mythic tradition, or understanding comparative mythology more broadly, or even the subject and overview of mythology as a whole, this text attempts to present a clear and understandable introduction to some of the best tried and true approaches, as well as to address some of the perennial problems and points of confusion. To embark on the study of myth is to join a noisy chorus of scholars, both present and past, in attempting to divine the meaning of some of the most important, intriguing, and at times puzzling narratives that humankind has ever crafted. We hope this text will help provide you with the theoretical background and tools to allow for a rich, full study of mythology in all its myriad forms. To the teacher of myth: Myth has been the source of a great deal of theoretical disagreement and confusion as well. We have tried to address some of the controversies by appealing to a close and careful consideration of the data, which at times helps keep lofty theorizing firmly anchored in the real world. Additionally, we have tried to present a historical background to the study of myth, which should also help illuminate the close relationships between a society, and that society's views of myth. Mythology does not occur without people: it is only with a strong grounding in the study of humankind that we can hope to make progress in our understanding. Where doubt within the scholarly community has arisen, we have tried to pay attention to both sides of the debates. The resulting text is intended to be a detailed, yet engaging, introduction to the study of world mythology, and a scholarly counterweight to popular, unscientific views. Our experience in teaching myth is that the most vexing issues stem from the several strained if not contradictory connotations that the term myth carries. Is myth archaic, or is it part of all societies and thus modern as well? Is it part of religion and/or science, or does it contrast with these? Most vexingly, does myth designate falsehood, or the highest forms of truth-those that form the core, guiding principles of particular societies' engagements of the cosmos and life within it? There is also the double signification of the term mythology, which points to both an academic tradition and the object studied by that tradition. Our view is that while such antinomies are unlikely to be resolved in the foreseeable future, much can be gained by locating and identifying them and by attempting to understand how and why they have emerged. We hope that this approach not only lends clarity to the topic of myth, but also serves to energize the study to which we now turn"--
Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come
Norman Cohn,Professor Norman Cohn
Author : Norman Cohn,Professor Norman Cohn
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300090889
Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come by Norman Cohn,Professor Norman Cohn Pdf
All over the world people look forward to a perfect future, when the forces of good will be finally victorious over the forces of evil. Once this was a radically new way of imagining the destiny of the world and of mankind. How did it originate, and what kind of world-view preceded it? In this engrossing book, the author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium takes us on a journey of exploration, through the world-views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, through the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, to the earliest Christian imaginings of heaven on earth. Until around 1500 B.C., it was generally believed that once the world had been set in order by the gods, it was in essence immutable. However, it was always a troubled world. By means of flood and drought, famine and plague, defeat in war, and death itself, demonic forces threatened and impaired it. Various combat myths told how a divine warrior kept the forces of chaos at bay and enabled the world to survive. Sometime between 1500 and 1200 B.C., the Iranian prophet Zoroaster broke from that static yet anxious world-view, reinterpreting the Iranian version of the combat myth. For Zoroaster, the world was moving, through incessant conflict, toward a conflictless state--"cosmos without chaos." The time would come when, in a prodigious battle, the supreme god would utterly defeat the forces of chaos and their human allies and eliminate them forever, and so bring an absolutely good world into being. Cohn reveals how this vision of the future was taken over by certain Jewish groups, notably the Jesus sect, with incalculable consequences. Deeply informed yet highly readable, this magisterial book illumines a major turning-point in the history of human consciousness. It will be mandatory reading for all who appreciated The Pursuit of the Millennium.
The Myth of the Eternal Return
Mircea Eliade
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691238326
The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade Pdf
First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide variety of archaic religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to their practices is impossible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding their views to enrich the contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. This book includes an introduction from Jonathan Z. Smith that provides essential context and encourages readers to engage in an informed way with this classic text.
The Myth of the Eternal Return
Mircea Eliade
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Bollingen
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0691017778
The Myth of the Eternal Return by Mircea Eliade Pdf
This essay on humanity's experience of history and its interpretation begins with a study of the traditional or mythological view and concludes with a comparative estimate of modern historiological approaches.
Cosmos and History
Mircea Eliade
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004490327
Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade Pdf
This founding work of the history of religions, first published in English in 1954, secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade (1907-1986). Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no less than half a dozen European languages, Eliade's The Myth of the Eternal Return makes both intelligible and compelling the religious expressions and activities of a wide variety of archaic and "primitive" religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to the "archaic" is no longer possible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding this view in order to enrich our contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. Jonathan Z. Smith's new introduction provides the contextual background to the book and presents a critical outline of Eliade's argument in a way that encourages readers to engage in an informed conversation with this classic text.
A Dictionary of Creation Myths
David Adams Leeming,David Adams (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Leeming, University of Connecticut)
Author : David Adams Leeming,David Adams (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Leeming, University of Connecticut)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Creation
ISBN : 0195102754
A Dictionary of Creation Myths by David Adams Leeming,David Adams (Professor of English and Comparative Literature Leeming, University of Connecticut) Pdf
Myth, Chaos, and Certainty
Rosolino Buccheri
Author : Rosolino Buccheri
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000172973
Myth, Chaos, and Certainty by Rosolino Buccheri Pdf
This book offers a study of the three evolutions in a circle (cosmos, life, and knowledge) with the aim of discussing human social behavior, a metaphor of the general behavior of nature (from which man derives) within the fluctuating equilibrium between the opposite tendencies to cohesion and shredding; a circularity revealing an indefinite and probably never conclusive run-up of human beings to the knowledge of nature; an analysis that demonstrates any theoretical/practical impossibility to formulate absolute certainties, since it depicts a situation in which man finds himself hovering between a rational way of living and the contradictory modus operandi of mythos. All that, within a society where the powerful communication and transportation technologies give rise to conflicts and fragmentations, where anyone’s will to self-distinguishing is enhanced by highlighting any small difference and obscuring any large similarity. The main difference between this book and existing ones stems from its interdisciplinary nature, particularly because it establishes a close connection between three, apparently so different disciplines—cosmology, life sciences, and sociology—compared with respect to their increasing complexity laws, giving rise to always more chaotic configurations.
Cosmos of the Ancients
Stefan Stenudd
Author : Stefan Stenudd
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517250919
Cosmos of the Ancients by Stefan Stenudd Pdf
The philosophers of Ancient Greece lived in a time when the gods were worshipped and the myths about them very much alive. They were generally regarded as accurate and there was no scientific evidence at hand to dismiss them. So, were they believed? This book explores to what extent the Greeks were able to question their own mythology. This is done by examining the cosmology of their philosophers and what roles they allowed therein for the gods - as much as possible according to their own words. To the philosophers, the quest to understand the world was neither made redundant by the mythology nor completely independent of it. If they were able to express doubts regarding the gods as well as the myths about them, and many of them certainly were, then their contemporaries must have been able to grasp the same. The Greeks were devoted to their mythology, but not all of them blindly so. Stefan Stenudd is a Swedish author and historian of ideas, who specializes on studies of the patterns of thought in creation myths.
Myth and Geology
Luigi Piccardi,W. Bruce Masse
Author : Luigi Piccardi,W. Bruce Masse
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 1862392161
Myth and Geology by Luigi Piccardi,W. Bruce Masse Pdf
"This book is the first peer-reviewed collection of papers focusing on the potential of myth storylines to yield data and lessons that are of value to the geological sciences. Building on the nascent discipline of geomythology, scientists and scholars from a variety of disciplines have contributed to this volume. The geological hazards (such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and cosmic impacts) that have given rise to myths are considered, as are the sacred and cultural values associated with rocks, fossils, geological formations and landscapes. There are also discussions about the historical and literary perspectives of geomythology. Regional coverage includes Europe and the Mediterranean, Afghanistan, Cameroon, India, Australia, Japan, Pacific islands, South America and North America. Myth and Geology challenges the widespread notion that myths are fictitious or otherwise lacking in value for the physical sciences." -- BOOK JACKET.
The Archetypal Cosmos
Keiron Le Grice
Author : Keiron Le Grice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0863157750
The Archetypal Cosmos by Keiron Le Grice Pdf
The modern world is passing through a time of critical change on many levels: cultural, political, ecological, and spiritual. We are witnessing the decline and dissolution of the old order and the tumult and uncertainty of a new birth. Against this background is the urgent need for a coherent framework of meaning to guide and to lead individuals and society beyond the growing fragmentation of culture, belief, and personal identity. Keiron Le Grice asserts that developing insights of a new cosmology can provide this framework to us discover an underlying order that shapes our life experiences. In a compelling synthesis of ideas from the seminal thinkers of depth psychology and new paradigm sciences, The Archetypal Cosmos positions the new discipline of archetypal astrology at the center of an emerging worldview that reunifies psyche and cosmos, spirituality and science, and mythology and metaphysics to enable us to see mythic gods, heroes, and themes in a new light. The author draws especially on the work of Jung, Joseph Campbell, Richard Tarnas, Fritjof Capra, David Bohm and Brian Swimme. Heralding a "rediscovery of the gods" and passage into a new spiritual era, The Archetypal Cosmos presents a new understanding of the role of myth and archetypal principles in our lives, one that could give a cosmic perspective and deeper meaning to our personal experiences.
Myth, religion and society
Richard L. Gordon
Author : Richard L. Gordon
Publisher : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 290172583X
Myth, religion and society by Richard L. Gordon Pdf
The Myth of the Eternal Return, Or, Cosmos and History
Mircea Eliade
Author : Mircea Eliade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 0710092490
The Myth of the Eternal Return, Or, Cosmos and History by Mircea Eliade Pdf
Mythos and Cosmos
John Lundwall
Author : John Lundwall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692505784
Mythos and Cosmos by John Lundwall Pdf
A bold new approach to myth studies, Mythos and Cosmos reexamines ancient myth through the template of oral thinking and oral cosmology. Contradicting decades of assumptions about the purpose and function of ancient mythology, Lundwall defines myth as "the oral imprinting press of pre-literate peoples" and shows that myth belongs to a complex and rational method of information transmission amongst oral peoples. Further, ancient mythology belonged to a cultus which incorporated ritual and symbol in a cosmological system which sought to found the sacred world.Where this work really shines is in its discussion of how ancient oral peoples saw their universe. Oral cosmology is far more complex than the simple "flat-earth" models discussed in current textbooks. Such myth cycles as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Labors of Heracles, and the story of the Great Flood are seen completely differently when viewed from within ancient cosmological thought. Many strange features of ancient culture, such as the dancing chorus in Greek theater, are explained in rational and revolutionary ways. The pyramids, ziggurats, and megalithic-henges are also seen in a new light.While academic, the book is written for a general audience. It is a fascinating exploration in ancient history, comparative myth and religious studies, and the ancient mind.
