Book Description
Includes works first published during the period 1933-36. Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941) is famous as the author of "The Golden Bough."
Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819601674
Includes works first published during the period 1933-36. Sir James G. Frazer (1854-1941) is famous as the author of "The Golden Bough."
Author : James George Frazer
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,56 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : Sir James George Frazer
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Page : 170 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Ancestor worship
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Author : James George Frazer
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Ancestor worship
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 1994
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ISBN : 9780700703180
Author : John Clute
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 1110 pages
File Size : 27,70 MB
Release : 1999-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780312198695
Like its companion volume, "The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction", this massive reference of 4,000 entries covers all aspects of fantasy, from literature to art.
Author : Hans Ruin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 12,23 MB
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1503607763
Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying. This book underscores that it is also the art of learning to live and share the earth with those who have come before us. Burial, with its surrounding rituals, is the most ancient documented cultural-symbolic practice: all humans have developed techniques of caring for and communicating with the dead. The premise of Being with the Dead is that we can explore our lives with the dead as a cross-cultural existential a priori out of which the basic forms of historical consciousness emerge. Care for the dead is not just about the symbolic handling of mortal remains; it also points to a necropolitics, the social bond between the dead and living that holds societies together—a shared space or polis where the dead are maintained among the living. Moving from mortuary rituals to literary representations, from the problem of ancestrality to technologies of survival and intergenerational communication, Hans Ruin explores the epistemological, ethical, and ontological dimensions of what it means to be with the dead. His phenomenological approach to key sources in a range of fields gives us a new perspective on the human sciences as a whole.
Author : James George Frazer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 18,59 MB
Release : 1994
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Author : Matthew Suriano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,10 MB
Release : 2018-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0190844744
Postmortem existence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament was rooted in mortuary practices and conceptualized through the embodiment of the dead. But this idea of the afterlife was not hopeless or fatalistic, consigned to the dreariness of the tomb. The dead were cherished and remembered, their bones were cared for, and their names lived on as ancestors. This book examines the concept of the afterlife in the Hebrew Bible by studying the treatment of the dead, as revealed both in biblical literature and in the material remains of the southern Levant. The mortuary culture of Judah during the Iron Age is the starting point for this study. The practice of collective burial inside a Judahite rock-cut bench tomb is compared to biblical traditions of family tombs and joining one's ancestors in death. This archaeological analysis, which also incorporates funerary inscriptions, will shed important insight into concepts found in biblical literature such as the construction of the soul in death, the nature of corpse impurity, and the idea of Sheol. In Judah and the Hebrew Bible, death was a transition that was managed through the ritual actions of the living. The connections that were forged through such actions, such as ancestor veneration, were socially meaningful for the living and insured a measure of immortality for the dead.
Author : Lars Albinus
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2016-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3110455064
This volume is dedicated to Wittgenstein's remarks on Frazer's The Golden Bough and represents a collaboration of scholars within philosophy and the study of religion. For the first time, specialized investigations of the philological and philosophical aspects Wittgenstein's manuscripts are combined with the outlook of philosophical anthropology and ritual studies. In the first section of the book Wittgenstein's remarks are presented and discussed in light of his Nachlass and relevant lecture-notes by G.E. Moore, reproduced in this book as facsimiles. The second section deals with the cultural and philosophical background of the early remarks, while the third section focuses specifically on the general problem of understanding as being a main issue of these remarks. The fourth section concentrates on the philosophical development characteristic of the later remarks. Finally, the fifth section reviews Wittgenstein's opposition to Frazer, and the ramifications of his remarks, in light of ritual studies. The book is intended for scholars in philosophy and religious studies, as well as for the general reader with an academic interest in philosophy and the philosophy of religion.