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Mythby Laurence Coupe
Routledge 1997; US$ 22.95An indispensable overview of the evolution of 'myth', from the Greek definitions to those of a range of contemporary thinkers. Coupe also provides an introduction to myth-making. more...
Concept of the Goddessby Sandra Billington; Miranda Green
Routledge 1998; US$ 40.95This volume is an up-to-date, highly readable study of the female aspects of religion both in past and present mythologies. It explores the function and nature of goddesses and their cults in many cultures. more...
Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythologyby Edgerton Skyes; Alan Kendall
Routledge 1993; US$ 29.95Over 2500 entries provide detail of each mythical character and combine to create the most complete and detailed reference work of its kind. more...
The Modern Construction of Mythby Andrew Von Hendy
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 31.95"... one of the richest, clearest, and acutest surveys to date of the course of theorizing about myth from the eighteenth century on. I know of no more useful volume on the topic. Despite the postmodern connotations of the title, Von Hendy is writing not to expose the concept of myth but simply to show the array of ways in which it has been used from time to time and from place to place. A superb work." -- Robert A. Segal, University of Lancaster, author of Theorizing about Myth Andrew Von Hendy offers an integrated critical account of the career of myth in modernity. He takes as its starting point some crucial... more...
Thinking Through Mythsby Kevin Schilbrack
Routledge 2002; US$ 43.95Embracing a radical balance between myths illusory and functional status these eight outstanding essays, from leading academics, deconstruct problems of rationality, imagination and narrative to trace the influence of myth in our own beliefs. more...
Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals, and Festivalsby Frank Salamone
Routledge 2004; US$ 165.00This complex topic is explored through articles covering general concepts and ideas, major forms of ritual and festival, life cycle rites and specific rites and festivals such as Easter, Christmas, Passover, Ramadan and many more. more...
Bulfinch's Mythologyby Thomas Bulfinch
Random House Publishing Group 1999; US$ 9.99For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity, Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths, and the age of chivalry have been known. The forerunner of such interpreters as Edith Hamilton and Robert Graves, Thomas Bulfinch wanted to make these stories available to the general reader. A series of private notes to himself grew into one of the single most useful and concise guides to literature and mythology. The stories are divided into three sections: The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (first published in 1855); The Age of Chivalry (1858), which contains King Arthur and His Knights, The Mabinogeon, and The Knights... more...
Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demonsby Manfred Lurker
Routledge 2004; US$ 31.95Containing around 1,800 entries this dictionary covers, in one volume, all the important deities and demons from around the world. This will be an invaluable source of information for anyone interested in comparative religion. more...
Goddesses and the Divine Feminineby Rosemary Ruether
University of California Press 2005; US$ 24.95This landmark work presents the most illuminating portrait we have to date of goddesses and sacred female imagery in Western culture?from prehistory to contemporary goddess movements. Beautifully written, lucidly conceived, and far-ranging in its implications, this work will help readers gain a better appreciation of the complexity of the social forces? mostly androcentric?that have shaped the symbolism of the sacred feminine. At the same time, it charts a new direction for finding a truly egalitarian vision of God and human relations through a feminist-ecological spirituality. Rosemary Radford Ruether begins her exploration of the divine feminine with an analysis of prehistoric archaeology that challenges the popular idea that, until their... more...
The Myths We Live byby Mary Midgley
Routledge 2003; US$ 27.95Mary Midgley argues in her powerful new book that far from being the opposite of science, myth is a central part of it. A tour de force of clear thinking on why we are more than the sum of our molecules, The Myths We Live By is essential reading. more...