The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore
| Author | : Christian Blinkenberg |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 1911 |
| Genre | : Archaeology |
| ISBN | : |
The Thunderweapon In Religion And Folklore A Study In Comparative Archaeology
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The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore, a Study in Comparative Archaeology
| Author | : Christian Blinkenberg |
| Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2018-02-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781376670691 |
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The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore, a Study in Comparative Archaeology
| Author | : Christian Blinkenberg |
| Publisher | : Alpha Edition |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2019-12-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9789353954765 |
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The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore
| Author | : Chr; Blinkenberg |
| Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
| Total Pages | : 142 |
| Release | : 2015-06-15 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9781330093894 |
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The Classical Review
| Author | : |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 1912 |
| Genre | : Classical literature |
| ISBN | : |
This companion to the Classical Quarterly contains reviews of new work dealing with the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Over 300 books are reviewed each year.
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
| Author | : Timothy Insoll |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1135 |
| Release | : 2011-10-28 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0191617385 |
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion provides a comprehensive overview by period and region of the relevant archaeological material in relation to theory, methodology, definition, and practice. Although, as the title indicates, the focus is upon archaeological investigations of ritual and religion, by necessity ideas and evidence from other disciplines are also included, among them anthropology, ethnography, religious studies, and history. The Handbook covers a global span - Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, and the Americas - and reaches from the earliest prehistory (the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic) to modern times. In addition, chapters focus upon relevant themes, ranging from landscape to death, from taboo to water, from gender to rites of passage, from ritual to fasting and feasting. Written by over sixty specialists, renowned in their respective fields, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will serve both as a comprehensive introduction to its subject and as a stimulus to further research.
The Serpent Symbol in Tradition
| Author | : Charles Dailey |
| Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
| Total Pages | : 646 |
| Release | : 2022-01-24 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1914208692 |
Serpent and dragon symbolism is ubiquitous in the art and mythology of premodern cultures around the world. Over the centuries, conflicting hypotheses have been proposed to interpret this symbolism which, while illuminating, have proved insufficient to the task of revealing a singular meaning for the vast majority of examples. In The Serpent Symbol in Tradition, Dr. Dailey argues that, in what the symbolist Rene Guenon and the historian of religions Mircea Eliade have called 'traditional' or 'archaic' societies, the serpent/dragon transculturally symbolizes matter, a state of being that is constituted by the perception of the physical world as chaotic in comparison to what traditional peoples believed to be the 'higher' meta-physical source of the physical world or 'nature.' In the course of Dr. Dailey's investigations into the meaning of traditional serpent/dragon symbolism, the following contributions have proved invaluable: 1) Guénon's interpretation of the language of traditional symbolism and the metaphysics that underlies it, as well as his interpretation of the terminology of the 'Hindu Doctrines,' 2) Eliade's interpretation of traditional/archaic societies by means of his concepts of chaos, creation, Axis Mundi (World Axis), and 'Sacred and Profane,' and 3) the insights of various other researchers of serpent/dragon symbolism. Beyond purporting to resolve some of the mystery of the ancient and varied symbolism of the serpent/dragon, The Serpent Symbol in Tradition strives to serve the related functions of interpreting the symbolic meanings of a wide variety of premodern artifacts and narratives as well as providing a study of the origination, and ancient human awareness, of the mentioned state of matter.
Archaeology and Folklore
| Author | : Amy Gazin-Schwartz |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2005-06-23 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1134634668 |
Folklore and archaeology are traditionally seen as taking very different approaches to the interpretation of the past. This book explores the complex relationship between the disciplines to show what they might learn from each other.
Confronting the Sacred: Durkheim vindicated through philosophical analysis, ethnography, archaeology, long-range linguistics, and comparative mythology
| Author | : Wim van Binsbergen |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 582 |
| Release | : 2018-05-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9078382333 |
With Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912) the soci0logist ?mile Durkheim formulated the most influential social-science theory of religion to date. Pivotal are the paired concepts ?sacred / profane?, the notion of ?collective representations?, and the hypothesis that through such religious symbols, society compels its members to venerate herself i.e. to submit to the social as an irreducible instance in its own right. Having grappled with this Durkheimian inheritance for half a century, the anthropologist of religion and intercultural philosopher Wim van Binsbergen in this book traces his own steps in confront_ing Durkheim's sacred, through theoretical criticism, through ethnographic application (to popular Islam in the segmentary social organisation of the highlands of Northwestern Tunisia), and by state-of-the-art long-range methods of linguistic and comparative mythological analysis. Thus, much to his surprise, he demonstrates the continued validity of Durkheim's insights in religion.
The Star-Crossed Stone
| Author | : Ken McNamara |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2010-11-15 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0226514714 |
Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologists study them for clues to the earth’s history. In The Star-Crossed Stone, Kenneth J. McNamara, an expert on fossil echinoids, takes readers on an incredible fossil hunt, with stops in history, paleontology, folklore, mythology, art, religion, and much more. Beginning with prehistoric times, when urchin fossils were used as jewelry, McNamara reveals how the fossil crept into the religious and cultural lives of societies around the world—the roots of the familiar five-pointed star, for example, can be traced to the pattern found on urchins. But McNamara’s vision is even broader than that: using our knowledge of early habits of fossil collecting, he explores the evolution of the human mind itself, drawing striking conclusions about humanity’s earliest appreciation of beauty and the first stirrings of artistic expression. Along the way, the fossil becomes a nexus through which we meet brilliant eccentrics and visionary archaeologists and develop new insights into topics as seemingly disparate as hieroglyphics, Beowulf, and even church organs. An idiosyncratic celebration of science, nature, and human ingenuity, The Star-Crossed Stone is as charming and unforgettable as the fossil at its heart.
