Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol 1
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Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : Ebookslib |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1913 |
ISBN-10 | : BNC:1001984010 |
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Rating | : 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol 1 by : Andrew Lang
Book excerpt: When this book first appeared (1886), the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and opposed by the author. In Science, as on the Turkish throne of old, Amurath to Amurath succeeds; the philological theories of religion and myth have now yielded to anthropological methods. The centre of the anthropological position was the ghost theory of Mr