Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Popular Genres

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

Wendy Doniger
4.2/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
..". 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 Chicago
Language
English
Pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Release
April 01, 2000
ISBN
0253201888
ISBN 13
9780253201881

The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

Wendy Doniger
4.2/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
..". 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 Chicago
Language
English
Pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Release
April 01, 2000
ISBN
0253201888
ISBN 13
9780253201881

More books from Wendy Doniger

The Lives of Animals

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Hindus: An Alternative History

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Rig Veda

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?

loader