Myth Religion And Society

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:47946050

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Myth, Religion and Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Collectif,,Richard Gordon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 290172583X

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Myth, religion and society. by Collectif,,Richard Gordon Pdf

Author : Richard L. Gordon
Publisher : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 290172583X

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Myth, religion and society by Richard L. Gordon Pdf

Author : R. L. Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1982-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0521296404

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Myth, Religion and Society by R. L. Gordon Pdf

The essays in this volume explore different aspects of the relation between Greek myth and Greek thought between the Archaic period (Homer and Hesiod) and the Hellenistic period, highlighting both the continuities and the contrasts in the Greek interpretations and 'uses' of myth. With the exception of the essay by Louis Gernet, all bear traces of the authors; attempts to combine older views stemming essentially from Durkheim and his pupils with Levi-Strauss's version of structuralism. Because the potential field is unmanageably large this selection concentrates on four important areas: the value of Greek myth in revealing the underlying coherence of Greek views of divinity; the manner in which Greek myth constructed meanings for Greek culture as a whole by selecting and combining certain motifs derived from different areas of life; the relationship between myth and delicate areas of social existence such as the nature of the value of certain objects and the passage of individuals from one status to another; and finally, the role of the myth in providing 'forms' for breaking rules - both in order to confirm the norm and to provide symbolic and actuals means of escape from dominant social rules and meanings. This book should be of interest to students in a number of disciplines concerned with myth and ancient society.

Author : Ryan P. Burge
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506482019

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20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America by Ryan P. Burge Pdf

The way most people think about religion and politics is only loosely linked to empirical reality, argues Ryan P. Burge. In 20 Myths about Religion and Politics in America, Burge strives to be an impartial referee and to overcome these caustic misperceptions by using both rigorous data analysis and straightforward explanations.

Author : Laura Feldt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614511724

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Wilderness in Mythology and Religion by Laura Feldt Pdf

Wilderness is one of the most abiding creations in the history of religions. It has a long and seminal history and is of contemporary relevance in wildlife preservation and climate discourses. Yet it has not previously been subject to scrutiny or theorising from a cross-cultural study of religions perspective. What are the specific relations between the world’s religions and imagined and real wilderness areas? The wilderness is often understood as a domain void of humans, opposed to civilization, but the analyses in this book complicate and question the dualism of previous theoretical grids and offer new perspectives on the interesting multiplicity of the wilderness and religion nexus. This book thus addresses the need for cross-cultural anthropological and history of religions analyses by offering in-depth case studies of the use and functions of wilderness spaces in a diverse range of contexts including, but not limited to, ancient Greece, early Christian asceticism, Old Norse religion, the shamanism-Buddhism encounter in Mongolia, contemporary paganism, and wilderness spirituality in the US. It advances research on religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature and brings new understanding of the role of religion in human interaction with ‘the world’.

Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Greece
ISBN : PSU:000017523677

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Myth and Society in Ancient Greece by Jean-Pierre Vernant Pdf

In this groundbreaking study, Jean Pierre-Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece. Myth and Society in Ancient Greece takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon to reveal a fundamentally other culture: one of slavery, of masks and death, of scapegoats, of ritual hunting and ecstasies.Vernant's provocative discussion of various institutions and practices including war, marriage, and sacrifice details the complex intersection of the religious, social, and political structures of ancient Greece. The book concludes with Vernant's authoritative genealogy of the study of myth from antiquity to structuralism and beyond.

Author : Marcel Detienne,Jean-Pierre Vernant,Louis Gernet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:935304273

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Myth, Religion and Society by Marcel Detienne,Jean-Pierre Vernant,Louis Gernet Pdf

Author : Tok Thompson,Gregory Allen Schrempp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Manners and customs
ISBN : 9780190222789

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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"--

Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X001016017

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Myth, Cosmos, and Society by Bruce Lincoln Pdf

Author : Gnana Stanley Jaya Kumar
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8175330058

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Religion and Society by Gnana Stanley Jaya Kumar Pdf

In the wake of tremendous progress of industrialization and urbanization,religion,one of h\the powerful tradition institution,has undergone far -reaching chanes with regards to the criteria of values and standard of behaviour.The goal ofall human activity is evidently the attainment of happiness in this life as well as beyond ,Evidently for a personality,both these sets of seemingly opposite categories,that is mundane and extra0mundane are indispensable and inseparable.

Author : Marcel Mauss,Henri Hubert,Robert Hertz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317252603

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Saints, Heroes, Myths, and Rites by Marcel Mauss,Henri Hubert,Robert Hertz Pdf

Classical Durkheimian Studies of Myth and the Sacred presents English translations of several important essays, some never before translated, by members of the famous Annee sociologique group around Emile Durkheim. These works by Marcel Mauss, Henri Hubert, and Robert Hertz are key contributions to today's growing interest in and reinterpretation of Durkheimian thought on culture, religion, and symbolism. The central thrust in this new interpretive effort uses the Durkheimian theory of the sacred to understand the symbolism and meanings of cultural structures and narratives more generally. This book is vital to any contemporary collection emphasizing social theory.

Author : Thomas Albert Sebeok
Publisher : Midland Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015005750933

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Myth by Thomas Albert Sebeok Pdf

9 papers on the origin and function of myths.

Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199372386

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Discourse and the Construction of Society by Bruce Lincoln Pdf

Without overlooking the role of coercive force in the maintenance (or overthrow) of social structures, Lincoln argues his thesis with rich illustrations drawn from such diverse areas as Platonic philosophy, the Upanishads of India, ancient Celtic banquets, professional wrestling, and the Spanish Civil War. This wide-ranging interdisciplinary study--which draws on works in history, semiotics, anthropology, sociology, classics, and indology--offers challenging new insights into the complex dynamics of social cohesion and change. The second edition includes three new chapters, new images, and an updated bibliography.

Author : Robert Ellwood
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781847062352

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Myth by Robert Ellwood Pdf

An accessible introduction to the complex topic of Myth. Ellwood examines theories, meanings and interpretations, all of which are structured around a typical programme of study.