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By: James Aloysius Kritzeck
ISBN: 9780691651422
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Jane Ellen Harrison
ISBN: 9780691015149
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Examines the festivals of ancient Greek religion to identify the primitive 'substratum' of ritual and its persistence in the realm of classical religious observance and literature.
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By: Jonathan D.H. Norton
ISBN: 9781350265028
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Rosalie David
ISBN: 9780140262520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2002
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile - their life source - was a divine gift. This book provides an insight into their religious beliefs and practices, from 5000 BC to the 4th century AD, when Egyptian Christianity replaced the earlier customs. It presents an introduction to the world of half-human/half-animal gods and goddesses.
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By: Louis Renou
ISBN: 9781474288187
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Filippo Carl-Uhink
ISBN: 9781474297844
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Dr Filippo Carl-Uhink
ISBN: 9781350194472
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Andrei A. Znamenski
ISBN: 9780313309601
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Assesses the interaction of 19th-century Russian missionaries with three indigenous groups, the Chukchi and Altaians in Siberia and the Dena'ina Indians in Alaska. The text examines the relationships as a dialogue about spiritual, political and ideological power.
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By: Robert Ellwood
ISBN: 9780826436610
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Explores the causes of evil in myth, encompassing themes such as defilement, the figure of the trickster, evil people both within and outside the society, and traumatic initiations. This title also looks at 'cures' for evil: laughter, sacrifice, the flood, the hero's quest, initiation, the saviour, divine wisdom and the end of days.
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By: Robert Ellwood
ISBN: 9780826437143
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Explores the causes of evil in myth, encompassing themes such as defilement, the figure of the trickster, evil people both within and outside the society, and traumatic initiations. This title also looks at 'cures' for evil: laughter, sacrifice, the flood, the hero's quest, initiation, the saviour, divine wisdom and the end of days.
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By: Robert Ellwood
ISBN: 9781441170033
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation
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Offers a fresh approach to the traditional mythology and literature of the afterlife, focusing on tensions and polarities in the afterlife concepts. This title depicts the many rich mythologies of the afterlife from the ancient Mesopotamians, Japanese, Greeks of the Homeric era, to Christian views of heaven or the Buddhist western paradise.
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By: Christoffer Theis
ISBN: 9781350254534
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Christoffer Theis
ISBN: 9781350254572
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Nicola Laneri
ISBN: 9781350280816
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Nicola Laneri
ISBN: 9781350398696
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Benson Saler
ISBN: 9781350239494
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Benson Saler
ISBN: 9781350239531
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Paul Lonigan
ISBN: 9780313299551
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This comprehensive study of the Druids offers a fresh look at the enigmatic and often controversial question of the role of these priests in Celtic society. This study will be of particular interest to scholars of Irish culture, Celtic culture, and comparative religion.
(Hardback)
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1979
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The object of the present little book is to provide in connected form enough information to cover all the ordinary allusions met with, so that by reading it through, the student may get a conspectus of the whole field; while, by means of a copious index, it may also fulfill the function of the Classical Dictionary,
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By: Luther H. Martin
ISBN: 9781472584199
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Luther H. Martin
ISBN: 9781474288699
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Mu-chou Poo
ISBN: 9780567702005
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Mu-chou Poo
ISBN: 9780567702043
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Javier Teixidor
ISBN: 9780691616612
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Javier Teixidor has found evidence that belief in a supreme god developed during the first millennium B.C. The Phoenician and Aramaic inscriptions he discusses indicate a trend toward monotheism that facilitated the spread of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The author concludes that the traditional characteristics of the popular religions were pr
