Golden Bough

A Study of Magic and Religion

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• Publisher: The Floating Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN:
  9781775410560
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Theology & Religion

Sir James George Frazer's The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a broad comparative study of mythology and religion. Treating religion as a cultural phenomenon rather than discussing it from a theological perspective, the effect of The Golden Bough on both European literature and the emerging discipline of anthropology was substantial. The pioneering anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski said of it: "e;No sooner had I read this great work than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frazer, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact studies and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology."e;

Table of contents

• THE GOLDEN BOUGH
• Contents
• Preface
• I - The King of the Wood
• II - Priestly Kings
• III - Sympathetic Magic
• IV - Magic and Religion
• V - The Magical Control of the Weather
• VI - Magicians as Kings
• VII - Incarnate Human Gods
• VIII - Departmental Kings of Nature
• IX - The Worship of Trees
• X - Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
• XI - The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
• XII - The Sacred Marriage
• XIII - The Kings of Rome and Alba
• XIV - The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Lat…
• XV - The Worship of the Oak
• XVI - Dianus and Diana
• XVII - The Burden of Royalty
• XVIII - The Perils of the Soul
• XIX - Tabooed Acts
• XX - Tabooed Persons
• XXI - Tabooed Things
• XXII - Tabooed Words
• XXIII - Our Debt to the Savage
• XXIV - The Killing of the Divine King
• XXV - Temporary Kings
• XXVI - Sacrifice of the King's Son
• XXVII - Succession to the Soul
• XXVIII - The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
• XXIX - The Myth of Adonis
• XXX - Adonis in Syria
• XXXI - Adonis in Cyprus
• XXXII - The Ritual of Adonis
• XXXIII - The Gardens of Adonis
• XXXIV - The Myth and Ritual of Attis
• XXXV - Attis as a God of Vegetation
• XXXVI - Human Representatives of Attis
• XXXVII - Oriental Religions in the West
• XXXVIII - The Myth of Osiris
• XXXIX - The Ritual of Osiris
• XL - The Nature of Osiris
• XLI - Isis
• XLII - Osiris and the Sun
• XLIII - Dionysus
• XLIV - Demeter and Persephone
• XLV - The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in North…
• XLVI - The Corn-Mother in Many Lands
• XLVII - Lityerses
• XLVIII - The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
• XLIX - Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
• L - Eating the God
• LI - Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
• LII - Killing the Divine Animal
• LIII - The Propitiation of Wild Animals by Hunters
• LIV - Types of Animal Sacrament
• LV - The Transference of Evil
• LVI - The Public Expulsion of Evils
• LVII - Public Scapegoats
• LVIII - Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity
• LIX - Killing the God in Mexico
• LX - Between Heaven and Earth
• LXI - The Myth of Balder
• LXII - The Fire-Festivals of Europe
• LXIII - The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals
• LXIV - The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
• LXV - Balder and the Mistletoe
• LXVI - The External Soul in Folk-Tales
• LXVII - The External Soul in Folk-Custom
• LXVIII - The Golden Bough
• LXIX - Farewell to Nemi
• Endnotes