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... very shaken by the findings of biology, geology, and anthropology. I mentioned Frazer, and it's interesting to note that The Golden Bough was widely embraced by intellectuals when it came out, though it treated religion as a cultural phenomenon rather than from a theological perspective. The ... The Golden Bough by James Frazer The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James Garner Frazer. ... like to consider the Loeb Classical Library edition of The Library by Apollodorus translated by James G Frazer - he of The Golden Bough. A second century gathering of nearly all classical myths gathered in a single (2 volume) work. It has, as you would expect, lots of scholarly footnotes. ... not primarily concerned with telling the stories, but are historical-anthropological studies along the lines of Frazer's The Golden Bough.
I actually found them fascinating, albeit demanding, reading, but I certainly would not use them as an introduction to the Greek myths. ... Enemies of Jupiter - Caroline Lawrence
The Fire of Ares - Michael Ford
The Giant of Inishkerry - Sheila Gilluly
The Golden Bough - Sir James Frazer
The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti
The Lion Tamer's Daughter - Peter Dickinson
The Pirates of Pompeii - Caroline Lawrence
The Ropem ... ... war Thucydides
Again excellent source material although you need to read this book with a map in front of you.
The Golden Bough Sir James Frazer. A seminal work in anthropology. It becomes wearing at times, as Frazer tries rather too hard to make his points - and in fact one comes ... the Marriage of Sense and Soul
the Golden Bough
Varieties of Religious Experience
Voyage of Slaves
I have a love/hate relationship with Powell's. ... Pliny and Froissart... Humboldt, depending on the selection (I assume it wouldn't be complete). I've never seen a complete Golden Bough in the wild, if it came with LOTS OF PICTURES, I'd get it. Can't say I'm an expert in Anthropoplogy, but I can't imagine a more interesting book on it being written than The Golden Bough, if you've got the patience to get through it. The abridged version is around 700 pages long, and it's probably considered a bit dated, but I think it would be worth ... ... Enemies of Jupiter - Caroline Lawrence
The Fire of Ares - Michael Ford
The Giant of Inishkerry - Sheila Gilluly
The Golden Bough - Sir James Frazer
The Good Thief - Hannah Tinti
The Lion Tamer's Daughter - Peter Dickinson
The Pirates of Pompeii - Caroline Lawrence
The Ropem ... ... Faces' is derived from Christian mythology whereas it stems from much earlier myths as anyone (like Campbell) who read his Golden Bough would know. Messianism is also derived from Judaism, Christ was supposed to be the Jewish messiah, there was no Christian messiah since it didn't exist yet.
... ... Many I have, many I don't. Two I don't have that are high up are William James' Varieties of Religious Experience, and the Golden Bough. ... stories are short and clever, and often deep, which make it good for going back and dipping into. Also, I would list the Golden Bough, which while very long, can also be dipped into due to the way it is split into short chapters, and I like this book because in places it can be so ... ... rituals, and several organizations. Also helps dispell a lot of fluff-bunny beliefs about Druidic practices.
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The Golden Bough
James Frazer
classic anthropological work of the evolution of magical and religious beliefs (roman, europeen)
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The Once and Future Godd ... ... and fueled the practices of the Inquisition
Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic, by Scott Cunningham, the lore of stones
The Golden Bough, by James Frazer, classic anthropological work of the evolution of magical and religious beliefs (roman, europeen)
The Encyclopaedia of Celtic Wisd ... My top 5 non-fiction reads of the last year, in order of preference:
1. The Quantum Brain by Jeffrey Satinover
2. The Golden Bough by Frazer
3. Godel Escher Bach by Hofstadter
4. The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
5. Shadows of the Mind by Penrose joint with Anatomy of ... So many interesting picks. I'm especially curious about The Corn King and the Spring Queen -- I love The Golden Bough and immediately picked up on the name. Looking forward to your review on this and all of the Penguin Nature Classics (all authors I like but many works I haven't read). The Golden Bough, a study in magic and religion by Sir James George Frazer
The Man Who Was Magic: a fable of innocence by Paul Gallico
The Man Who Loved Jane Austen by Sally Smith
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by Sir James George Frazer The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, by Sir James George Frazer ... to me: (copied from an email to Tim, which he may not have seen yet due to the ENORMOUS amount of email he gets)
The Golden Bough by James G. Frazer is/was an absolute mess. The 1890 edition is a 2 volume
work (sometimes combined in one volume), but there was another, later ... ... Waddington's forte, epigenetics, is finally taking off). A very different sort of book, but reading Frazer's multi-volume The Golden Bough taught me there is nothing new on earth. I only discovered Montaigne's Essays as an adult and have sent a copy to my 16 year old nephew. Might be a bit ... This is not one book, but a set. I would love to have the multi-volume Golden Bough. Several years ago, I had a chance to get the set for $300, but budget would not allow. I have regretted this ever since. Now, I am back where I am not sure budget would allow, even at that low price. ... in Wolf Wood by Mary Stewart
The Crooked Timber of Humanity by Isaiah Berlin
The Jungle Books by Rudyard Kipling
The Golden bough by sir James Frazier I'd start out with Frazer's The Golden Bough.
Toss in Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces and The Masks of God.
My old favorite, This Believing World by Lewis Browne.
Man and His Gods by Smith.
A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Chr ... I agree that most of the books included under the main work The Golden Bough are actually abridged versions. But IMO titles that don't indicate whether a book is abridged or unabridged have to be kept combined with each other, and separate from those that do indicate abridgement. Judging from a quick bit of research (I'd have to do some digging to get out The Golden Bough and some other books), theophagy was practised in a number of ancient religions. It being a bit difficult to get one's hands on a deity to kill and eat him, a substitute was used. This could be a human, ... ... Lizard King's lyrics. I do, however, have a concrete example of TLK's borrowing from Sir James Frazer. Chapter 60 of The Golden Bough is entitled 'Between Heaven and Earth'. The page heading reads 'Not to touch the earth' and the next page is, of course, 'Not to see the sun'. Unfortunately ... ... until you come across his sources throughout literature and realise he was a very successful plagiarist - Blake and The Golden Bough being the most obvious. For me, the most quotable lyricist of the last thirty years has been Morrissey. He's witty, pithy and surprising. I'd enjoyed Tim Willocks' new book The Religion so much I went back and read his 1994 novel Green River Rising, an uber-grim Texas prison-riot saga, and found it mostly preposterous and overdone, but over-the-top in a way that only the very best pulp fiction can be sometimes, and I probably ... ... they do say that the first step is admitting you have a problem. But what if I'm not ready to be cured?
Case in point:
The Golden Bough
And the People Could Fly
When God Was a Woman
All purchased in the used book section of my local Schuler Books (a local chain that everyone around ... ... anything I've read this year. I don't read historical swashbucklers, can't even remember the last one for that matter, but The Religion is just an unforgettable book, and I've already ordered Willocks' Green River Rising and Bloodstained Kings from ABE and am really looking forward to both ... Louis,
I was quite surprised to see The Religion's stained pages when I received my copy and I agree it's a beautiful book (it has a nice heft to it, too). I think it's the only page-stained hardcover in my collection. My only problem with staining is any nick or scratch to a page edge ... ... usually stray too far afield, but I've spent the last 5 days completely in thrall to Tim Willocks' new historical novel The Religion, absolutely the most thrilling and exciting book I've read in a long, long time. Willocks sets his story in 1565, when the great Ottoman ruler Suleiman the Mag ... And in today's mail from Amazon, Max Brooks' World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, and from Amazon UK, The Religion by Tim Willocks.
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