Ritual, Myth and the Modernist Text 9789057005176

Modernist Form and the Myth of Jewification 9780823255085

This book argues that the antisemitic interpretation of modernist form as a symptom of a mobile, contagious Jewish spiri

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The Myth of Ritual Murder 9780300161915

From the mid-fifteenth century to the early seventeenth, German Jews were persecuted and tried for the alleged ritual mu

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Myth, Ritual and Religion (Vol. 12) 9781609776701

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The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity 9780674058897

Brakke writes a pioneering study of the way the demon role relates to religious thinking and to cultural anxieties. The

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Myth, Text, and History at Sparta 9781463237011

Three studies that offer close readings concerning the interaction of the source material on Spartan history with the un

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Myth, Text, and History at Sparta 9781463237011

Three studies that offer close readings concerning the interaction of the source material on Spartan history with the un

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Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual: Symbol, Myth, and Ritual 9781501717192

The core of this book is a complete description of two important Ndembu rituals of affliction (Chihamba and Kayong'

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Order in Paradox: Myth and Ritual Among Nepal's Tamang 9781501721779

He sheds light on the relationship between gender and ritual, considering in detail the close association between female

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The Indian Christ, the Indian king: the historical substrate of Maya myth and ritual 9780292721418, 9780292738249

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The Mouse and the Myth: Sacred Art and Secular Ritual of Disneyland 0861969324, 9780861969326

Upholds “a Disney vacation as a religious experience . . . [offers] insightful arguments relating to the nature of play

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