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Myth - A Biography of Belief

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Zusatztext "In this little book, Leeming's ideas about the emerging myths of the twenty-first century (set suitably into a history of myth) make it essential that, within a few years, he write another book to tell us how it all came out."--Paul Bohannan, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Southern California Informationen zum Autor David Leeming is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Connecticut and author of A Dictionary of Asian Mythology (OUP 2000). He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext In Myth David Leeming traces the role of myth and mythologies in the human experience. Stresing myths of creation, deity, the hero, and union, he particularly shows how these cultural and universal dreams and patterns affect the way we operate today in our classrooms, relationships, religions and politics. Zusammenfassung In Myth David Leeming traces the role of myth and mythologies in the human experience. Stresing myths of creation, deity, the hero, and union, he particularly shows how these cultural and universal dreams and patterns affect the way we operate today in our classrooms, relationships, religions and politics.

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