The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860 |
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| Author:
| Feldman, Burton
Richardson, Robert D. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-35012-1 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2000 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $49.95 |
Book Description:
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"... 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
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"... 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