Implied Spider - Politics and Theology in Myth

Informationen zum Autor Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago and a member of the Committee on Social Thought. Her books include Dreams! Illusions! and Other Realities; Other Peoples' Myths; The Cave of Echoes; and the English-language edition of Yves Bonnefoy's Mythologies. Her translations of such sacred texts as The Rig Veda are widely considered definitive. Klappentext Wendy Doniger's foundational study is both modern in its engagement with a diverse range of religions and refreshingly classic in its transhistorical! cross-cultural approach. By responsibly analyzing patterns and themes across context! Doniger reinvigorates the comparative reading of religion! tapping into a wealth of narrative traditions! from the instructive tales of Judaism and Christianity to the moral lessons of the "Bhagavad Gita." She extracts political meaning from a variety of texts while respecting the original ideas of each. A new preface confronts the difficulty of contextualizing the comparison of religions as well as controversies over choosing subjects and positioning arguments! and the text itself is expanded and updated throughout.

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• Authors: Wendy Doniger, Wendy (The University of Chicago Divinity Doniger, Wendy (The University of Chicago Divinity School) Doniger, Doniger Wendy
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2010
• EAN: 9780231156424
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15642-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Columbia University Press; Columbia Classics in Religion; American Lectures on the History of Religions; American Lectures on the History of Religions
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Religion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Folklore, myths & legends, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)