The End Of The Myth
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The Myth Of The Great Ending
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Author : Joseph M. Felser
language : en
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
Release Date : 2011-04-01
The Myth Of The Great Ending written by Joseph M. Felser and has been published by Hampton Roads Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
From Christian believers in the Apocalypse and the Rapture to New Age enthusiasts of prophecies concerning the year 2012, Doomsday lore has been a part of culture, a myth that colors how we perceive the world. Why do we remain obsessed with Doomsday myths even when they fail to materialize? What if we haven’t recognized the true message of these myths? Blending history, psychology, metaphysics, and story, philosopher and author Joseph Felser explores the spiritual questions raised by these enduring myths. Along the way he consults the work of Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Black Elk, Wovoka, Itzhak Bentov, Jane Roberts, Seth, Hermann Hesse, Ingo Swann, David Bohm, Fred Alan Wolf, J. Allen Boone, William James, and Robert Monroe through ever-widening circles of understanding. Felser suggests that our obsession with “The End of the World” hides a repressed, healthy longing for reconciliation with our inner and outer worlds--with nature and our own natural spirituality. He urges us to recognize and act upon that longing. When we begin to listen to nature’s voice and pay heed to our own dreams--including visions, intuitions, and instinctive promptings--the greatest revolution in all history will unfold. We can create a future of our own choosing, a beginning rather than an ending.
The End Of The World
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Author : Ernesto de Martino
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2023-11-29
The End Of The World written by Ernesto de Martino and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-29 with History categories.
"A philosopher, historian of religions, and anthropologist, Ernesto De Martino is often glossed as "ahead of his time." In his work, a reader sees the roots of psychological and medical anthropology; discussions of reflexivity and the role of the ethnographer; considerations of colonialism and migration and the trauma they might engender; and an anticipation of the "existential turn" in anthropology. A reader would also find an attentiveness to hope and possibility, despite the gloomy title of his posthumously published book, La fine del mondo (The End of the World). Perhaps the end of the world is an overstatement. But in a rapidly globalizing world, one in which the entire earth becomes our shared "cultural homeland," despite our different values and local histories, "the end of the world" might simply mean the end of "a world," our particular world, and the dawning of something new-"the world of tomorrow." De Martino seeks, in part, to make the idea of the end of a world less horrifying, while at the same time attending to the individual loss-of-self that one might feel in contemplating an apocalypse, especially as modernization has divorced us from the rituals and folklore that might make such an eventuality less terrifying. De Martino writes: "Two opposed terrors dominate our age: the terror of losing the world, and the terror of being lost in the world... The end of the world, the loss of presence." Interweaving the cultural and individual levels of apocalypse, treating subjects both classic and contemporary and both European and "non-Western," ranging across ethnography and philosophy, De Martino probes how we relate to our world and how we might be better subjects and thinkers within it"--
The Myth Of Disenchantment
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Author : Jason A. Josephson-Storm
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-05-18
The Myth Of Disenchantment written by Jason A. Josephson-Storm and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with Religion categories.
This study of the early human sciences and their deep connections to spiritualism dispenses with the myth that separates magic and modernity. Many theorists contend that the defining feature of modernity is our collective loss of faith in spirits, myths, and magic. But in The Myth of Disenchantment, Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues against this narrative, showing that attempts to suppress magic have failed more often than not. Even the human sciences have been more enchanted than is commonly supposed. But that raises the question: How did a magical, spiritualist, mesmerized Europe ever convince itself that it was disenchanted? Josephson-Storm traces the history of the myth of disenchantment in the births of philosophy, anthropology, sociology, folklore, psychoanalysis, and religious studies. He demonstrates that the founding figures of these “mythless” disciplines were in fact profoundly enmeshed in the occult and spiritualist revivals of Britain, France, and Germany. It was in response to this milieu that they produced notions of a disenchanted world. By providing a novel history of the human sciences and their connection to esotericism, The Myth of Disenchantment dispatches with most widely held accounts of modernity and its break from the premodern past.
The End Of The World In Scandinavian Mythology
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Author : Anders Hultgård
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022-09-19
The End Of The World In Scandinavian Mythology written by Anders Hultgård and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-19 with Religion categories.
The End of the World in Scandinavian Mythology is a detailed study of the Scandinavian myth on the end of the world, the Ragnarök, and its comparative background. The Old Norse texts on Ragnarök, in the first place the 'Prophecy of the Seeress' and the Prose Edda of the Icelander Snorri Sturluson, are well known and much discussed. However, Anders Hultgård suggests that it is worthwhile to reconsider the Ragnarök myth and shed new light on it using new comparative evidence, and presenting texts in translation that otherwise are available only to specialists. The intricate question of Christian influence on Ragnarök is addressed in detail, with the author arriving at the conclusion of an independent pre-Christian myth with the closest analogies in ancient Iran. People in modern society are concerned with the future of our world, and we can see these same fears and hopes expressed in many ancient religions, transformed into myths of the future including both cosmic destruction and cosmic renewal. The Ragnarök myth can be said to be the classical instance of such myths, making it more relevant today than ever before.
The Myth Of The Goddess
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Author : Anne Baring
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 1993-03-25
The Myth Of The Goddess written by Anne Baring and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-25 with Social Science categories.
A comprehensive, scholarly accessible study, in which the authors draw upon poetry and mythology, art and literature, archaeology and psychology to show how the myth of the goddess has been lost from our formal Judeo-Christian images of the divine. They explain what happened to the goddess, when, and how she was excluded from western culture, and the implications of this loss.
Epinikion
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Author : Richard Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-01-14
Epinikion written by Richard Hamilton and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-14 with Social Science categories.
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The Myth And Mystery Of Ufos
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Author : Thomas E. Bullard
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2016-10-17
The Myth And Mystery Of Ufos written by Thomas E. Bullard and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-17 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
When United Airlines workers reported a UFO at O'Hare Airport in November 2006, it was met with the typical denials and hush-up that usually accompany such sightings. But when a related story broke the record for hits at the Chicago Tribune's website, it was clear that such unexplained objects continued to occupy the minds of fascinated readers. Why, wonders Thomas Bullard, don't such persistent sightings command more urgent attention from scientists, scholars, and mainstream journalists? The answer, in part, lies in Bullard's wide-ranging magisterial survey of the mysterious, frustrating, and ever-evolving phenomenon that refuses to go away and our collective efforts to understand it. In his trailblazing book, Bullard views those efforts through the lens of mythmaking, discovering what UFO accounts tell us about ourselves, our beliefs, and the possibility of visitors from beyond. Bullard shows how ongoing grassroots interest in UFOs stems both from actual personal experiences and from a cultural mythology that defines such encounters as somehow "alien"-and how it views relentless official denial as a part of conspiracy to hide the truth. He also describes how UFOs have catalyzed the evolution of a new but highly fractured belief system that borrows heavily from the human past and mythic themes and which UFO witnesses and researchers use to make sense of such phenomena and our place in the cosmos. Bullard's book takes in the whole spectrum of speculations on alien visitations and abductions, magically advanced technologies, governmental conspiracies, varieties of religious salvation, apocalyptic fears, and other paranormal experiences. Along the way, Bullard investigates how UFOs have inspired books, movies, and television series; blurred the boundaries between science, science fiction, and religion; and crowded the Internet with websites and discussion groups. From the patches of this crazy quilt, he posits evidence that a genuine phenomenon seems to exist outside the myth. Enormously erudite and endlessly engaging, Bullard's study is a sky watcher's guide to the studies, stories, and debates that this elusive subject has inspired. It shows that, despite all the competing interests and errors clouding the subject, there is substance beneath the clutter, a genuinely mysterious phenomenon that deserves attention as more than a myth.
The Myths Of Narasi Ha And V Mana
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Author : Deborah A. Soifer
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1991-11-08
The Myths Of Narasi Ha And V Mana written by Deborah A. Soifer and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-11-08 with Religion categories.
The Sanskrit Puranas and epics are replete with stories of the avatars, incarnations of the god Visnu in various forms to rid the universe of malevolent forces and to restore the proper cosmic balance. As Narasimha, half-man half-lion, Visnu finds a loophole in the pact of invulnerability the demon Hiranaipu has received from god Brahma, and rends the demon apart with his claws. As the brahmin dwarf, Vamana, Visnu deceives the demon Bali with his diminutive appearance and thwarts Bali's attempt to gain universal sovereignty. After carefully analyzing the myths of Vamana and Narasimha, Deborah Soifer grounds her study in the textual history of each avatar and its myth, in their religious contexts, and in the intricate cosmology of the classical period of Hinduism. Contrasting the bestial persona of Narasimha with Vamana's priestly appearance and his associations with early cosmologic themes, she finds complementarity and significance in this pair as they are viewed in the larger context of periodic cosmic destructions and recreations. While focusing primarily on these two mythological figures, Soifer's work explores the relationship between dharma and the 'devious' acts of gods; the interplay between cosmic and 'sociocosmic' levels of reality; and the relationship between cosmology, theology, and soteriology in a religious worldview.
The Myths Of The North American Indians
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Author : Lewis Spence
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-11-16
The Myths Of The North American Indians written by Lewis Spence and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-16 with Social Science categories.
Lewis Spence's 'The Myths of the North American Indians' is a comprehensive study of the rich mythology of indigenous peoples of North America. Spence delves into various tribes' myths, legends, and spiritual beliefs, providing valuable insights into the cultural and historical significance of these stories. Written in a scholarly yet accessible style, the book offers a deep exploration of the literary context of Native American mythology and its impact on modern literature and popular culture. This work is essential for anyone interested in Native American folklore and traditional beliefs. Lewis Spence, a renowned Scottish historian and folklorist, was known for his expertise in mythology and ancient civilizations. His background in anthropology and archaeology enabled him to provide a well-rounded analysis of indigenous myths, shedding light on their significance and relevance in today's world. Spence's dedication to preserving and sharing these stories showcases his commitment to cultural preservation and understanding. 'The Myths of the North American Indians' is a must-read for those seeking a comprehensive and enlightening exploration of Native American folklore.
The Myth Of The Eternal Return
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Author : Mircea Eliade
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-12
The Myth Of The Eternal Return written by Mircea Eliade and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-12 with Religion categories.
First published in English in 1954, this founding work of the history of religions secured the North American reputation of the Romanian émigré-scholar Mircea Eliade. Making reference to an astonishing number of cultures and drawing on scholarship published in no fewer than half a dozen European languages, The Myth of the Eternal Return illuminates the religious beliefs and rituals of a wide variety of archaic religious cultures. While acknowledging that a return to their practices is impossible, Eliade passionately insists on the value of understanding their views to enrich the contemporary imagination of what it is to be human. This book includes an introduction from Jonathan Z. Smith that provides essential context and encourages readers to engage in an informed way with this classic text.