TY  - BOOK
AU  - Budin,Stephanie Lynn
AU  - Budin,Stephanie Lynn
AU  - Tully,Caroline J.
TI  - A Century of James Frazer's The Golden Bough: Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough
SN  - 9781032695631
PY  - 2025///
PB  - Taylor & Francis, Routledge [Imprint]
KW  - Ancient history
KW  - thema
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Christianity
KW  - European history
KW  - Health, Relationships and Personal development
KW  - History and Archaeology
KW  - History of religion
KW  - History
KW  - Indigenous religions, spiritual beliefs and mythologies of the Americas
KW  - Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs
KW  - Mind, body, spirit
KW  - Mysticism, magic and occult interests
KW  - Other religions and spiritual beliefs
KW  - Philosophy and Religion
KW  - Religion and beliefs
KW  - Religion: general
KW  - Shamanism, paganism and Druidry
KW  - Social and cultural anthropology
KW  - Society and Social Sciences
KW  - Sociology and anthropology
KW  - Ancient Mesopotamia
KW  - anthropology of religion
KW  - Assyriology
KW  - biblical studies
KW  - bronze age myth
KW  - Bronze-Age Aegean
KW  - classical studies
KW  - dying gods
KW  - Early Anthropology
KW  - folklore
KW  - Frazerian
KW  - golden bough
KW  - graeco-roman religion
KW  - greco-roman religion
KW  - History of Religion
KW  - ishtar
KW  - james frazer
KW  - Law of Similarity
KW  - Matriarchy
KW  - Mesopotamian religion
KW  - minoan
KW  - Minoan archaeology
KW  - minoan religion
KW  - minoan society
KW  - near eastern myth
KW  - near eastern religion
KW  - neo-paganism
KW  - neopaganism
KW  - Pagan Reconstructionism
KW  - Sir James G. Frazer
KW  - sumerian myth
KW  - sympathetic magic
KW  - victorian Anthropology
KW  - Victorian Historiography
KW  - Wilhelm Mannhardt
N1  - Free-to-read
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98081
ER  -