The King Of The Wood The Perils Of The Soul
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Author | : James George Frazer |
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Magic |
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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 |
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Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Dying and rising gods |
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Total Pages | : 916 |
Release | : 1911 |
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Author | : Sir James George Frazer |
Publisher | : Library of Alexandria |
Total Pages | : 6687 |
Release | : 1957-01-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1465538461 |
For some time I have been preparing a general work on primitive superstition and religion. Among the problems which had attracted my attention was the hitherto unexplained rule of the Arician priesthood; and last spring it happened that in the course of my reading I came across some facts which, combined with others I had noted before, suggested an explanation of the rule in question. As the explanation, if correct, promised to throw light on some obscure features of primitive religion, I resolved to develop it fully, and, detaching it from my general work, to issue it as a separate study. This book is the result. Now that the theory, which necessarily presented itself to me at first in outline, has been worked out in detail, I cannot but feel that in some places I may have pushed it too far. If this should prove to have been the case, I will readily acknowledge and retract my error as soon as it is brought home to me. Meantime my essay may serve its purpose as a first attempt to solve a difficult problem, and to bring a variety of scattered facts into some sort of order and system. A justification is perhaps needed of the length at which I have dwelt upon the popular festivals observed by European peasants in spring, at midsummer, and at harvest. It can hardly be too often repeated, since it is not yet generally recognised, that in spite of their fragmentary character the popular superstitions and customs of the peasantry are by far the fullest and most trustworthy evidence we possess as to the primitive religion of the Aryans. Indeed the primitive Aryan, in all that regards his mental fibre and texture, is not extinct. He is amongst us to this day. The great intellectual and moral forces which have revolutionised the educated world have scarcely affected the peasant. In his inmost beliefs he is what his forefathers were in the days when forest trees still grew and squirrels played on the ground where Rome and London now stand.
Author | : Nottingham (England). Public Libraries |
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Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1913 |
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Author | : Nottingham (England). Free Public Reference Library |
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Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Classified catalogs |
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Author | : James George Frazer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2012-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108047521 |
Frazer's innovative and controversial 1890 examination of classical religion, and of the place of human sacrifice in cultures worldwide.
Author | : Library of Congress |
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Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Union |
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Total Pages | : 906 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Asia |
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Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
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Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1915 |
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