Killing the god (cont'd) The golden bough
Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Dying and rising gods |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Dying and rising gods |
ISBN | : |
Author | : J. G. Frazer |
Publisher | : Wentworth Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2019-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780530430645 |
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Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Magic |
ISBN | : |
Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.
Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 930 |
Release | : 2020-12-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : |
The Golden Bough is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The book documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe. Frazer attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought. The influence of The Golden Bough on contemporary European literature and thought is substantial.
Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110804753X |
Frazer's innovative and controversial 1890 examination of classical religion, and of the place of human sacrifice in cultures worldwide.