The Rise of Modern Mythology 1680-1860: A Critical History with Documents Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Rise of Modern Mythology 1680-1860: A Critical History with Documents Book

"... peerless... " -- The Key Reporter"... this book is a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." -- Choice"... so good as it stands... one should simply be happy to have it." -- The Journal of the History of Ideas "... an original, compendious, and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." -- The American Scholar"The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism; more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book that we need now." -- Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, The University of ChicagoRead More

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  • 0253350123
  • 9780253350121
  • Burton Feldman, Robert D. Richardson
  • 26 September 1972
  • Indiana University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 592
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