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Alone with the Alone
Creative Imagination in the Sūfism of Ibn 'Arabī
Av Henry Corbin
Häftad, 1998
496 kr
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"Henry Corbin's works are the best guide to the visionary tradition...Corbin, like Scholem and Jonas, is remembered as a scholar of genius. He was uniquely equipped not only to recover Iranian Sufism for the West, but also to defend the principal Western traditions of esoteric spirituality."--From …
Religion in Roman Egypt
Assimilation and Resistance
Häftad, 2000
479 kr
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This exploration of cultural resilience examines the complex fate of classical Egyptian religion during the centuries from the period when Christianity first made its appearance in Egypt to when it became the region's dominant religion (roughly 100 to 600 C.E. Taking into account the full range of …
Grail Legend
Av Emma Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz
Häftad, 1998
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
342 kr
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The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the blood of the crucified Christ. The story of the …
Orpheus and Greek Religion
A Study of the Orphic Movement
Av William Keith Guthrie, L. Alderlink
Häftad, 1993
479 kr
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The tales told of Orpheus are legion. He is said to have been an Argonaut--and to have saved Jason's life. Rivers are reported to have stopped their flow to listen to the sounds of his lyre and his voice. Plato cites his poetry and Herodotus refers to "practices that are called Orphic." Did …
Doctor Illuminatus
A Ramon Llull Reader
Av Ramón Llull, Anthony Bonner
Häftad, 1994
502 kr
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For this new anthology, Anthony Bonner has chosen central texts from his acclaimed two-volume compilation Selected Works of Ramon Llull (Princeton, 1985). Available for the first time in an affordable format, these works serve as an introduction to the life and writings of the Catalan (properly, …
Door in the Sky
Coomaraswamy on Myth and Meaning
Av Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Rama P. Coomaraswamy
Häftad, 1998
500 kr
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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) was a pioneer in Indian art history and in the cultural confrontation of East and West. A scholar in the tradition of the great Indian grammarians and philosophers, an art historian convinced that the ultimate value of art transcends history, and a social thinker …
The Gnostic Jung
Selections From The Writings of C.G. Jung and His Critics
Av C. G. Jung, Robert A. Segal
Häftad, 1992
291 kr
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Gnosticism, together with alchemy, was for C G Jung the chief prefiguration of his analytical psychology. Jung did not simply interpret Gnostic texts psychologically but also cited them as confirmation of his psychology. The author has searched the Jungian corpus to bring together Jung's main …
In Quest of the Hero
(Mythos Series)
Av Otto Rank, Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
385 kr
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In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan's The Hero. Amplifying these is Alan Dundes's fascinating contemporary inquiry, "The Hero Pattern and the Life of …
Grail
From Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol
Häftad, 1991
419 kr
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The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms: the settings have ranged from Britain to the Punjab to the Temple of Zeus at Dodona; the Grail itself has been described as …
Fire in the Dragon and Other Psychoanalytic Essays on Folklore
Häftad, 1992
466 kr
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The only Freudian to have been originally trained in folklore and the first psychoanalytic anthropologist to carry out fieldwork, Gza Rcheim (1891-1953) contributed substantially to the worldwide study of cultures. Combining a global perspective with encyclopedic knowledge of ethnographic sources, …
The Legend of the Baal-Shem
Av Martin Buber
Häftad, 1995
342 kr
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Offers an account of Hasidism, followed by twenty stories about the life of the Baal-Shem. This book is one of the earliest of Martin Buber's seven volumes on Hasidism and can be read not only as a collection of myth but as a key to understanding the central theme of Buber's thought: the I-Thou, or …
Ancient Christian Magic
Coptic Texts of Ritual Power
Av Marvin W. Meyer, Richard Smith
Häftad, 1999
709 kr
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This thought-provoking collection of magical texts from ancient Egypt shows the exotic rituals, esoteric healing practices, and incantatory and supernatural dimensions that flowered in early Christianity. These remarkable Christian magical texts include curses, spells of protection from "headless …
Gardens of Adonis
Spices in Greek Mythology - Second Edition
Häftad, 1994
479 kr
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Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. The author challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis-- whose …
King and the Corpse
Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
Av Heinrich Zimmer, Joseph Campbell
Häftad, 1971
840 kr
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Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this theme unfolds in legends from Irish paganism, …
Prometheus
Archetypal Image of Human Existence
Av Carl Kerényi
Häftad, 1997
502 kr
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Prometheus the god stole fire from heaven and bestowed it on humans. In punishment, Zeus chained him to a rock, where an eagle clawed unceasingly at his liver, until Herakles freed him. For the Greeks, the myth of Prometheus's release reflected a primordial law of existence and the fate of …
Presence of Siva
Häftad, 1994
548 kr
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One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Siva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, The Rg Veda, evokes his presence in its hymns; Vedic myths, rituals, and even astronomy testify to his existence from the dawn of time. In a lively meditation on Siva--based on original …
Wisdom of the Serpent
The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection.
Av Joseph Lewis Henderson, Maud Oakes
Häftad, 1990
505 kr
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The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It …
Egyptian Hermes
A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
Av Garth Fowden
Häftad, 1993
436 kr
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Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. A human (according to some) who had lived about the time of Moses, but now indisputably a god, he was credited with the authorship of numerous books on magic and the supernatural, alchemy, …
Survival of the Pagan Gods
The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art
Av Jean Seznec
Häftad, 1953
531 kr
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The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity--or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader first a discussion of …
Dreams in Late Antiquity
Studies in the Imagination of a Culture
Häftad, 1998
462 kr
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Dream interpretation was a prominent feature of the intellectual and imaginative world of late antiquity, for martyrs and magicians, philosophers and theologians, polytheists and monotheists alike. Finding it difficult to account for the prevalence of dream-divination, modern scholarship has often …
Malinowski and the Work of Myth
Häftad, 2014
634 kr
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Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as never before or since a program of seeing myths …
Mambu
A Melanesian Millennium
Häftad, 2014
1003 kr
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Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships bearing lavish material goods, and they …
Avicenna and the Visionary Recital
Av Henry Corbin
Inbunden, 2016
2920 kr
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In this work a distinguished scholar of Islamic religion examines the mysticism and psychological thought of the great eleventh-century Persian philosopher and physician Avicenna (Ibn Sina), author of over a hundred works on theology, logic, medicine, and mathematics. Henry Corbin's discovery in an …
Navaho Religion
A Study of Symbolism
Inbunden, 2016
5520 kr
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In this in-depth exploration of the symbols found in Navaho legend and ritual, Gladys Reichard discusses the attitude of the tribe members toward their place in the universe, their obligation toward humankind and their gods, and their conception of the supernatural, as well as how the Navaho …
Mambu
A Melanesian Millennium
Inbunden, 2016
2527 kr
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Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships bearing lavish material goods, and they …
Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period
Abridged Edition
Inbunden, 2016
2603 kr
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This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen-volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritual history in general through the study of Jewish symbols in particular. Revealing that the Jewish religion of the period was much more varied and …
