About this title: In this text, the author shows how to make sense of, and learn from, the diversity of past and present cultures. Drawing on traditions ranging from the Hebrew Bible to the "Bhagavad Gita", Doniger examines other cultures and finds in the world's myths a way to talk about experiences shared across time and space. Doniger shows that myths bridge the ...
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN-13:9780231111713ISBN:0231111711
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780231111706ISBN:0231111703
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 256 p. Lectures on the History of Religions, 16. Audience: General/trade. Hardcover in dust jacket, Fine/Near Fine Condition (Almost like new! ), 200 pages (L2). read more
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York, NY
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780231111706ISBN:0231111703
Description: Politics and Theology in Myth. Hardcover. 8vo. xii + 200 pp. Quarter blue cloth with blue papered boards; index; b&w illustrations. Very light rubbing to edges and corners. Otherwise, a tight and bright Near Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket. (Dust jacket not price clipped. ) read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1998-05-15
ISBN-13:9780231111706ISBN:0231111703
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780231111706ISBN:0231111703
Description: Bargain Price New Book. SubTitle/Content: Politics & theology in myth [comparative mythology as a way to talk about experiences shared across time & space] 1998, 200pp. read more
"I'd rate this at 4.5 stars if I could, but I can't. Dongier knows her stuff... I mean, she knows it COLD. That said, I was hoping for something more enlightening. Her work is largely a way to study comparative myth that avoids Campbell's methods in order to reach a more enriching and enlightening study. It's thorough and a great primer when studying. She brings in such works as fairy tale, the Bible, the Mahabharata and other Indian texts, Shakespeare, and other such works in order to get a more thorough understanding of mythology at large.
My biggest bone to pick is simply that most of the book is meant to "convert" those who find the study of comparative myth sloppy and juvenile work. For me (who's actually studying this stuff), a good chunk of the book felt a bit repetitive."
"While I agree with many of Doniger's ideas about the necessity of myth to cross-cultural studies and the necessity of cross-cultural studies to a rich intellectual life and healthy political discussion, I found that I needed her to be using more concrete examples from the outset, rather than setting out all her theories for four chapters before using the final two chapters for a series of examples."
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