The Golden Bough: pt. VI. The scapegoat. 1913
Author : James George Frazer
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Page : 478 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Magic
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Author : James George Frazer
Publisher :
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Magic
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Author : James George Frazer
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 24,27 MB
Release : 1914
Category : 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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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 1955
Category : Magic
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Author : James George Frazer
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 16,69 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Magic
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Author : Sir James George Frazer
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Magic
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Author : Sir James George Frazer
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 32,25 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Magic
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Author : David Dawson
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1611860636
Since its coinage in a sixteenth-century translation of Leviticus, the term "scapegoat" has become widely used. A groundbreaking search for the origins of this expression, Flesh Becomes Word traces the scapegoat to its origins in Mesopotamian ritual across centuries of typological interpretation and religious reflection, to its first informal uses in the pornographic and plague literature of the 1600s, and finally into the modern era.
Author : James George Frazer
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Page : pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 1955
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Author : James George Frazer
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,82 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Folklore
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Author : Stephanie Lynn Budin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 19,43 MB
Release : 2024-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1040183042
This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence across studies of ancient religions, literature, historiography, and reception studies. The book begins by exploring the life and times of Frazer himself and the writing of The Golden Bough in its cultural milieu. It then goes on to cover a wide range of topics, including: ancient Near Eastern religion and culture; Minoan religion and in particular the origins of notions of Minoan matriarchy; Frazer’s influence on the study of Graeco-Roman religion and magic; Frazer’s influence on modern Pagan religions; and the effects of Frazer’s works in modern culture and scholarship generally. Chapters examine how modern academia and beyond continues to be influenced by the otherwise discredited theories in The Golden Bough, ideas such as Sacred Marriage and the incessant Fertility of Everything. The book demonstrates how scholarship within the Humanities as well as practitioners of alternative religions and the common public remain under the thrall of Frazer over one hundred years since the publication of the abridged edition of The Golden Bough, and what we must do to shake off that influence. A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough is of interest to scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines, including Ancient History, History of Religion, Comparative Religion, Classical Studies, Archaeology, Historiography, Anthropology, Folklore, and Reception Studies.