The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 09 of 12)
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The Golden A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It was first published in two volumes in 1890; in three volumes in 1900; the third edition, published 1906–15, comprised twelve volumes. The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855). Frazer offered a modernist approach t...
Chapters (31)
- Preface.
- Chapter I. The Transference of Evil.
- § 1. The Transference to Inanimate Objects.
- § 2. The Transference to Stones and Sticks.
- § 3. The Transference to Animals.
- § 4. The Transference to Men.
- § 5. The Transference of Evil in Europe.
- § 6. The Nailing of Evils.
- Chapter II. The Omnipresence of Demons.
- Chapter III. The Public Expulsion of Evils.
- § 1. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils.
- § 2. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils.
- Chapter IV. Public Scapegoats.
- § 1. The Expulsion of Embodied Evils.
- § 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle.
- § 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle.
- Chapter V. On Scapegoats in General.
- Chapter VI. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity.
- § 1. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Rome.
- § 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece.
- Chapter VII. Killing the God in Mexico.
- Chapter VIII. The Saturnalia and Kindred Festivals.
- § 1. The Roman Saturnalia.
- § 2. The King of the Bean and the Festival of Fools.
- § 3. The Saturnalia and Lent.
- § 4. Saturnalia in Ancient Greece.
- § 5. Saturnalia in Western Asia.
- § 6. Conclusion.
- Note. The Crucifixion Of Christ.920
- Index.
- Footnotes
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