The Golden Bough

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Release Date : 2019-01-08
ISBN : 373680461X
Pages : 1543 pages
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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 1543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes. Frazer offered a modernist approach to discussing religion, treating it dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon rather than from a theological perspective. The influence of The Golden Bough on contemporary European literature and thought was substantial. The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief to scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat and many other symbols and practices whose influence has extended into twentieth-century culture.[3] Its 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. This thesis was developed in relation to J. M. W. Turner's painting of The Golden Bough, a sacred grove where a certain tree grew day and night. It was a transfigured landscape in a dream-like vision of the woodland lake of Nemi, "Diana's Mirror", where religious ceremonies and the "fulfillment of vows" of priests and kings were held. The king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the Earth. He died at the harvest and was reincarnated in the spring. Frazer claims that this legend of rebirth is central to almost all of the world's mythologies.

The Golden Bough

by James George Frazer

Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1995-12
ISBN : 0684826305
Pages : 884 pages
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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world classic. The Golden Bough describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic, taboos, and superstitions. Revealed here is the evolution of man from savagery to civilization, from the modification of his weird and often bloodthirsty customs to the entry of lasting moral, ethical, and spiritual values.

The Golden Bough

by James George Frazer

Publisher : e-artnow
Release Date : 2020-07-15
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Pages : 930 pages
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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Muḥammad and the Golden Bough

by Jaroslav Stetkevych

Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1996
ISBN : 9780253332080
Pages : 188 pages
Rating Book: 4.3/5 (332 users)

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Download or read book Muḥammad and the Golden Bough written by Jaroslav Stetkevych and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book dissects the intriguing Arab-Islamic myth built around Muhammad's unearthing of a "golden bough" from the grave of the last survivor of an ancient Arab people, the Thamud, who, according to the myth, were destroyed by a divine scourge for their iniquity. In the myth the episode of the slaying of the she-camel of the prophet Salih, which precipitates the downfall of the Thamud, is symbolically linked with Muhammad, the discoverer of the golden bough.

The Golden Bough

by James George Frazer

Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Release Date : 2005-12-01
ISBN : 1596056851
Pages : 732 pages
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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by James George Frazer and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-12-01 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of a man-god, or of a human being endowed with divine or supernatural powers, belongs essentially to that earlier period of religious history in which gods and men are still viewed as beings of much the same order, and before they are divided by the impassable gulf which, to later thought, opens out between them. Strange, therefore, as may seem to us the idea of a god incarnate in human form, it has nothing very startling for early man, who sees in a man-god or a god-man only a higher degree of the same supernatural powers which he arrogates in perfect good faith to himself. -from "Chapter VII: Incarnate Human Gods" In 1890, James George Frazer began publishing The Golden Bough, his monumental study of myth, ritual, and religion, which would, by 1936, run to 13 volumes and establish him as a pioneer in the study of religion as an aspect of culture. This abridged edition, assembled in 1922, condenses this fundamental work to one readable volume that is still a source for modern anthropology, thanks to its expansive discussions ancient cultish practices and their connections to the rites of modern Christianity. In eloquent prose, Frazer discusses legends of the woods, sympathetic magic, magicians as kings, the worship of trees, the concept of the sacred marriage, the links between priestly and royal power, ritual royal sacrifices, the concept of "eating the god," the myths of Osiris, Adonis, Isis, and other ancient deities, and much more. Lovers of mythology will be enraptured by this book, which draws all of human belief under one unifying umbrella, celebrating myth and ritual as part of the basis of all human culture. Scottish anthropologist SIR JAMES GEORGE FRAZER (1854-1941) also wrote Man, God, and Immortality (1927) and Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogonies (1935).

Golden Bough

by James George Frazer

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Release Date : 1990-01-01
ISBN : 9780312332150
Pages : pages
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The Golden Bough

by Sir James George Frazer

Publisher : Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2012-04-26
ISBN : 0486119726
Pages : 768 pages
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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by Sir James George Frazer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic 1890 study of cults, rites, and myths of antiquity helped define terms of social anthropology, influencing generations of thinkers. Abridgment omits footnotes, occasionally condenses text; all main principles remain intact.

The Golden Bough

by J.G. Frazer

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2016-02-19
ISBN : 1349004006
Pages : 756 pages
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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by J.G. Frazer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir James George Frazer originally set out to discover the origins of one ancient custom in Classical Rome - the plucking of the Golden Bough from a tree in the sacred grove of Diana, and the murderous succession of the priesthood there - and was led by his invetigations into a twenty-five year study of primitive customs, superstitions, magic and myth throughout the world. The monumental thirteen-volume work which resulted has been a rich source of anthropological material and a literary masterpiece for more than half a century. Both the wealth of his illustrative material and the broad sweep of his argument can be appreciated in this very readable single volume.

The Golden Bough

by Ashira Goddard

Publisher : Lulu.com
Release Date : 2008-05-07
ISBN : 1438218176
Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book The Golden Bough written by Ashira Goddard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-05-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book of antiquity for any studying magic and religion by Sir James George Frazer originally. Editing and foreword by Ashira Goddard. A Tapestry Antiquity Publishing Book.

The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough

by John B. Vickery

Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-08
ISBN : 1400871573
Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book The Literary Impact of The Golden Bough written by John B. Vickery and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frazer, with Freud, Marx, and Jung, is one of the thinkers who have had a deep and pervasive influence on modern literature. One of the great nineteenth-century syntheses, The Golden Bough was the culmination of a century of investigations into myth and ritual. John Vickery locates The Golden Bough in the context of its age and shows how, by gathering up many strands of nineteenth-century thought, it embodied the dominant intellectual tradition shaping the modern spirit. The author's intimate acquaintance with an extraordinary range of modern literature enables him to demonstrate the variety of strategies that poets and novelists have used to assimilate The Golden Bough in their individual attitudes and preoccupations. The remaining chapters of the book are devoted to extended discussions of the intellectual, thematic, and format impact of The Golden Bough on Yeats, Eliot, Lawrence, and Joyce. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

When the Golden Bough Breaks

by Peter Munz

Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-02
ISBN : 1317246470
Pages : 144 pages
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Download or read book When the Golden Bough Breaks written by Peter Munz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original, provocative study, first published in 1973, presents a new method of interpretation of mythology, and reveals the wide-ranging implications of this universal phenomenon for many disciplines. The volume begins with a sympathetic but critical examination of Lévi-Strauss’s interpretation of mythology. Professor Munz points out the deficiencies in structuralist interpretations, and takes Lévi-Strauss’s neglect of the historicity of all myths as a starting-point for an alternative approach to mythology. Myths, he argues, come in typological series. If the whole series is read forward to the most specific version, the myths will reveal their inherent meaning typologically.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)

by James Frazer

Publisher : Litres
Release Date : 2021-12-02
ISBN : 5040868855
Pages : 680 pages
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The Making of the Golden Bough

by Robert Fraser

Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 1990-05-25
ISBN : 1349207209
Pages : 240 pages
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12)

by James Frazer

Publisher : Litres
Release Date : 2021-03-16
ISBN : 5040844581
Pages : 616 pages
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Download or read book The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12) written by James Frazer and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Golden Bough: pt. VI. The scapegoat

by Sir James George Frazer

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Release Date : 1966
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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The Golden Bough

by James George Frazer

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Release Date : 1951
ISBN :
Pages : 328 pages
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The Golden Bough: pt. IV. Adonis, Attis, Osiris

by Sir James George Frazer

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Release Date : 1966
ISBN :
Pages : pages
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