The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860"... peerless... " --The Key Reporter "... this book is a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." --Choice "... so good as it stands... one should simply be happy to have it." --The Journal of the History of Ideas "... an original, compendious, and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." --The American Scholar "The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism; more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book that we need now." --Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, The University of Chicago |
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... seems settled in the Natural History , the issue seems to be opened again in the Dialogues concerning Natural Religion , especially in Part VII . For here , Philo , the skeptic , argues at least hypothetically for the plausibility of ...
... seems at first sight . Coming shortly after the gen- teel preromantic " mythic " criticism of a Hurd or Blair , or the conventionalist mythic theories of a Jones or Bryant , or the mildly mythic poetry of a Gray , Blake seems ...
... seems to mean by holding to " internal " evidences against " external " also seems a familiar part of the transcendental ap- proach to Christianity . Only this internal evidence can suffice , can resist destructive criticism , can yield ...
Contents
PART ONE The Earlier Eighteenth Century | 3 |
Pierre Bayle 16471706 | 19 |
JOHN TOLAND 16701722 | 25 |
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