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Lārhūs Fyrnsida Suggested Reading List
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Title
Author
Added
1
The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion
by
Mircéa Eliade
3,111 members
21 reviews
3.9
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:01 AM
Member
waxflower
2
The Myth of the Eternal Return: Or, Cosmos and History
by
Mircéa Eliade
1,648 members
12 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:01 AM
Member
waxflower
3
The Idea of the Holy
by
Rudolf Otto
1,623 members
12 reviews
½
3.7
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:05 AM
Member
waxflower
4
Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
by
Mary Douglas
1,207 members
9 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:01 AM
Member
waxflower
5
The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Ancient Greece and Rome
by
Numa Denis Fustel De Coulanges
728 members
10 reviews
½
4.3
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:05 AM
Member
waxflower
6
Ecstatic Religion: A Study of Shamanism and Spirit Possession
by
I. M. Lewis
255 members
1 review
½
3.3
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:05 AM
Member
waxflower
7
Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice
by
Catherine Bell
239 members
½
3.5
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:01 AM
Member
waxflower
8
Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions
by
Catherine Bell
239 members
4 reviews
½
3.5
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:01 AM
Member
waxflower
9
A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry into Polytheism
by
John Michael Greer
226 members
7 reviews
½
4.4
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:06 AM
Member
waxflower
10
The Tradition of Household Spirits: Ancestral Lore and Practices
by
Claude Lecouteux
141 members
2 reviews
4.1
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:00 AM
Member
waxflower
11
Looking for the Lost Gods of England
by
Kathleen Herbert
118 members
2 reviews
4
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:03 AM
Member
waxflower
12
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation
by
James C. Russell
114 members
3.8
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:03 AM
Member
waxflower
13
The Return of the Dead: Ghosts, Ancestors, and the Transparent Veil of the Pagan Mind
by
Claude Lecouteux
110 members
2 reviews
3.9
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:06 AM
Member
waxflower
14
The Cuisine of Sacrifice Among the Greeks
by
Marcel Detienne
102 members
3.8
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:02 AM
Member
waxflower
15
The Road to Hel: A Study of the Conception of the Dead in Old Norse Literature
by
Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
100 members
½
4.4
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:06 AM
Member
waxflower
16
Peace-Weavers and Shield-Maidens: Women in Early English Society
by
Kathleen Herbert
95 members
1 review
½
3.5
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:03 AM
Member
waxflower
17
The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England
by
Stephen Pollington
92 members
1 review
½
4.6
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:02 AM
Member
waxflower
18
Demons and Spirits of the Land: Ancestral Lore and Practices
by
Claude Lecouteux
88 members
1 review
½
3.3
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:06 AM
Member
waxflower
19
Lady with a Mead Cup: Ritual, prophecy and lordship in the European warband from La Tene to the Viking Age
by
Michael J. Enright
61 members
4.2
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:03 AM
Member
waxflower
20
The Well and the Tree: World and Time in Early Germanic Culture
by
Paul C. Bauschatz
53 members
1 review
4.1
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:00 AM
Member
waxflower
21
A Piece of Horse Liver: Myth, Ritual and Folklore in Old Icelandic Sources
by
Jon Hnefill Adalsteinsson
52 members
½
4.6
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:03 AM
Member
waxflower
22
The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in Northern Europe, AD 300-1300
by
Martin Carver
47 members
½
4.5
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:03 AM
Member
waxflower
23
The One-eyed God: Odin and the (Indo-) Germanic Männerbünde (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No. 36)
by
Kris Kershaw
46 members
1 review
5
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:02 AM
Member
waxflower
24
A Million and One Gods: The Persistence of Polytheism
by
Page DuBois
40 members
1 review
½
3.5
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:06 AM
Member
waxflower
25
Sacred Waters: Holy Wells and Water Lore in Britain and Ireland (Paladin Books)
by
Janet Bord
39 members
½
3.6
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:06 AM
Member
waxflower
26
Pagan Goddesses in the Early Germanic World: Eostre, Hreda and the Cult of Matrons (Studies in Early Medieval History)
by
Philip A. Shaw
37 members
4.2
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:06 AM
Member
waxflower
27
Signals of Belief in Early England: Anglo-Saxon Paganism Revisited
by
Alex Sanmark
30 members
5
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:04 AM
Member
waxflower
28
The Elder Gods: The Otherworld of Early England
by
Stephen Pollington
27 members
4
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:03 AM
Member
waxflower
29
Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult (Traditions)
by
Roger D. Woodard
23 members
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:02 AM
Member
waxflower
30
Anglo-Saxon leechcraft: An historical sketch of early English medicine : lecture memoranda, British Medical Association,
by
Henry Solomon Wellcome
19 members
3
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:05 AM
Member
waxflower
31
Roman Gods (Religions in the Graeco-roman World)
by
Michael Lipka
19 members
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:05 AM
Member
waxflower
32
The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons c.597-c.700: Discourses of Life, Death and Afterlife
by
Marilyn Dunn
19 members
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:04 AM
Member
waxflower
33
Chariot of the Sun and Other Rites and Symbols of the Northern Bronze Age (Aldine Pbs.)
by
Peter Gelling
12 members
½
3.5
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:05 AM
Member
waxflower
34
Faith, Hope and Worship: Aspects of Religious Mentality in the Ancient World (Studies in Greek and Roman Religion)
by
H.S. Versnel
12 members
Score 1
Added 2025-05-02, 06:05 AM
Member
waxflower
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