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Author | : Alan Olson |
Publisher | : Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1982-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780268013493 |
Download Myth, Symbol and Reality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Do myths and symbols have anything at all to tell us about reality? Or do they simply deserve to be relegated to the realm of fantastic unreality? The essayists in this volume deploy all the critical tools available in the task of taking myth and symbol seriously. They are not willing to consign the use of the symbolic to the logician or to relinquish the mythical to the comparative anthropologist as something of historical interest only. Instead, they strive for that difficult position that is guided by criticism but is still open to wonder in the face of what myth and symbol offer in terms of enrichment, meaning, and self-transcendence.
Author | : Clifford Geertz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Ethnology |
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Download Myth, Symbol, and Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Barbara Maria Stafford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Giorgia Grilli |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2013-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135868018 |
Download Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Mary Poppins that many people know of today--a stern, but sweet, loveable, and reassuring British nanny--is a far cry from the character created by Pamela Lyndon Travers in the 1930's. Instead, this is the Mary Poppins reinvented by Disney in the eponymous movie. This book sheds light on the original Mary Poppins, Myth, Symbol, and Meaning in Mary Poppins is the only full-length study that covers all the Mary Poppins books, exposing just how subversive the pre-Disney Mary Poppins character truly was. Drawing important parallels between the character and the life of her creator, who worked as a governess herself, Grilli reveals the ways in which Mary Poppins came to unsettle the rigid and rigorous rules of Victorian and Edwardian society that most governesses embodied, taught, and passed on to their charges.
Author | : Carole Hillenbrand |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2007-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0748631151 |
Download Turkish Myth and Muslim Symbol Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Turks ruled the Middle East for a millennium and eastern Europe for many centuries and it is an undoubted fact that they moulded the lands under their dominion. It is therefore something of a paradox that the history of Turkey and aspects of the identity and role of the Turks, both as Muslims and as an ethnic group, still remain little known in the west and undervalued in the Arabic and Persian-speaking worlds. This book contributes to historical scholarship on Turkey by focusing on its key foundational myth, the battle of Manzikert in 1071--the Turkish equivalent of the battle of Hastings. Manzikert destroyed the hold of Christian Byzantium on eastern Turkey and opened the whole country to the spread of Islam, a process completed with the fall of Constantinople and Trebizond some four centuries later. Translations and a close analysis of all the extant Muslim sources--both Arabic and Persian--which deal with the battle of Manzikert are provided in the book. It also looks at these writings as literary works and vehicles of religious ideology and analyses the ongoing confrontation between the Muslim Turks and Christian Europe and the importance of Manzikert in the formation of the modern state of Turkey since 1923.
Author | : Ariel Golan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Decoration and ornament, Ancient |
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Author | : Dorothy Norman |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rowena Shepherd |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2018-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781782404569 |
Download 1000 Symbols Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Symbols are often seen as constituting an international language and to some extent they do, but that language is far from universal--context means everything in this complicated but engrossing form of communication. Take, for example, a cross, a crane, or a swastika: each one has a different and distinct significance and meaning for a Buddhist, an art historian, or a student of the occult. 1000 Symbols resolves the problem by offering groupings of related symbols, every one with a neat definition of its history and its cross-cultural meanings.
Author | : Laird Scranton |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2010-09-24 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1594778892 |
Download The Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Reconstructs a theoretic parent cosmology that underlies ancient religion • Shows how this parent cosmology provided the conceptual origins of written language • Uses techniques of comparative cosmology to synchronize the creation traditions of the Dogon, ancient Egyptians, and ancient Buddhists • Applies the signature elements of this parent cosmology to explore and interpret the creation tradition of a present-day Tibetan/Chinese tribe called the Na-Khi--the keepers of the world’s last surviving hieroglyphic language Great thinkers and researchers such as Carl Jung have acknowledged the many broad similarities that exist between the myths and symbols of ancient cultures. One largely unexplored explanation for these similarities lies in the possibility that these systems of myth all descended from one common cosmological plan. Outlining the most significant aspects of cosmology found among the Dogon, ancient Egyptians, and ancient Buddhists, including the striking physical and cosmological parallels between the Dogon granary and the Buddhist stupa, Laird Scranton identifies the signature attributes of a theoretic ancient parent cosmology--a planned instructional system that may well have spawned these great ancient creation traditions. Examining the esoteric nature of cosmology itself, Scranton shows how this parent cosmology encompassed both a plan for the civilized instruction of humanity as well as the conceptual origins of language. The recurring shapes in all ancient religions were key elements of this plan, designed to give physical manifestation to the sacred and provide the means to conceptualize and compare earthly dimensions with those of the heavens. As a practical application of the plan, Scranton explores the myths and language of an obscure Chinese priestly tribe known as the Na-Khi--the keepers of the world’s last surviving hieroglyphic language. Suggesting that cosmology may have engendered civilization and not the other way around, Scranton reveals how this plan of cosmology provides the missing link between our macroscopic universe and the microscopic world of atoms.
Author | : Jennifer Reid |
Publisher | : University of Ottawa Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0776604163 |
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From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island (traditionally called Acadia) with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking peoples, the Mi'kmaq. Despite nearly three centuries of interaction, these communities have largely remained alienated from one another. What were the differences between Mi'kmaq and British structures of valuation? What were the consequences of Acadia's colonization for both Mi'kmaq and British people? By examining the symbolic and mythic lives of these peoples, Reid considers the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century roots of this alienation and suggests that interaction between British and Mi'kmaq during the period was substantially determined by each group's fundamental religious need to feel rooted - to feel at home in Acadia.