Browsing by Subject "Frazer, James George, 1854-1941. Golden bough"

Browsing by Subject "Frazer, James George, 1854-1941. Golden bough"

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  • The Fads the Drive Us: From Frazer, Freud, and Foucault to Butler and Connell 
    Budin, Stephanie Lynn (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    This presentation is a look at the various fads that have driven and skewed research in the Humanities in the past century, with a particular focus on how these fads have affected the study of human sexuality. Each case ...
  • Frazerian Survivals: Contemporary Witchcraft and The Golden Bough 
    Cornish, Helen (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    This ethnographic paper traces how remnants of Frazer’s The Golden Bough are navigated amongst twenty-first century witches as they orient contemporary practices towards the past. Additional Authors: Shaking the Tree, ...
  • From there to here and back again: Evan's Great Goddess, Frazer's Dying King and Mary Renault's popular fiction 
    Tittl, Larissa (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    This paper will explore how Frazer’s dying god and sacrificial king are taken up and reimagined in The King must Die, by twentieth century novelist Mary Renault. A pathway from Frazer’s dying god and sacrificed king to ...
  • Gold is the New Black: Race, the Academic Study of Religion, and The Golden Bough 
    Zwissler, Laurel (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    This project investigates Frazer’s influence within both the academic study of religion and new religious movements, such as contemporary Paganism and New Age, with focus on his deployment of religion to code cultural ...
  • The Golden Bough and the Press 
    Phillips, Julia (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    Part of the appeal for Frazer's work – both academic and populist – was that the Victorian age introduced ideas about evolution, and especially the concept of ‘New Imperialism' and authoritative rationalism, which placed ...
  • Guess Who’s Back? Graeber and Wengrow’s Resurrection of Matristic Minoans in 'The Dawn of Everything' 
    O'Brien, Stephen (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    In 2021 David Graeber and David Wengrow released their book The Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity to acclaim in the popular media and bestseller status in several countries. Anthropologists and Archaeologists ...
  • Much as I Owe to Mannhardt…:. Wald- und Feldkulte at the Roots of The Golden Bough 
    Rosa, Frederico Delgado (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    Wilhelm Mannhardt (1831-1880) is an excluded ancestor par excellence. Never translated, seldom read, his work is only mentioned in passing, as a source of data for The Golden Bough. Despite James Frazer acknowledging his ...
  • The Nude in Iconography in Contemporary Cults: A Study Case of Lilith 
    Lavallé, Vanessa (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    In Western contemporary paganism, “naked Goddess’’ figures are often used as images of the “Great Goddess”. This holds particularly true in the Western French Wicca which uses ancient Mesopotamian iconography as the ...
  • Pomegranate 3 (February 1998) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1998-02)
    The Myth of Historical Narrative: Margaret Murray's The God of the Witches / by Nancy Ramsey -- Excavating Sites of Production: Margaret Murray's Theory of Religion in Context / by Pam A. Detrixhe -- James George Frazier's ...
  • Popular Frazerism and Re-enchantment 
    Testa, Alessandro (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    The talk will start with a brief overview of the historiography of Frazer's impactful, everlasting legacy in European academic, literary, and pop cultures. It will then focus on one, specific new paradigm, "Popular Frazerism", ...
  • Reading about Nymphs and Roman Soldiers with and without Frazer 
    Köster, Isabel (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    This talk explores the usefulness and pitfalls of using Frazer’s theories to interpret inscriptions that refer to dedications made by (or on behalf of) Roman soldiers to nymphs. Starting with an overview in The Golden ...
  • Rejecting the Embrace of the Goddess? Minoan Archaeology and the Divine Feminine 
    Morris, Christine (Prudence Priest Collection of the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    This paper is a point of departure from the Cretan Bronze Age ideas about Minoan female divinity strongly shaped by Sir Arthur Evans, excavator of the palace of Knossos. Evans, in turn, was influenced by contemporaries ...
  • Same but Different: Frazer’s Sympathetic Law of Similarity and the Greco-Roman defixiones 
    Moorees, Saskia (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    Frazer’s typology of ‘sympathetic magic’ proved especially popular in the study of ancient magic after it appeared in The Golden Bough. Frazer’s Law of Similarity, in particular, was predicated on the idea that according ...
  • Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100 [Event Program] 
    Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100 (Conference); Tully, Caroline J.; Budin, Stephanie Lynn; University of Melbourne (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library. Archives and Special Collections. Valdosta State University., 2023-02-10)
    Program for the online conference "Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100" hosted by Dr. Caroline J. Tully and Stephanie Budin.
  • Sir James Frazer 
    Hutton, Ronald (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    The author of the Golden Bough was as remarkable as his book, in his professional career, personal life, and political, social and religious attitudes; and these things all deeply informed his approach to scholarship. This ...
  • Tree lore in the Anthropocene - The Order of Bards Ovates and Druids as Oak Seers in Times of Ecological Crisis 
    Brussman, Ive (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    In The Golden Bough Sir James Frazer gives attention to various forms of worshiping of trees and tree spirits − a phenomenon that has prevailed throughout history, in magic, religion, mythology and folklore to the present. ...
  • Welcome to the Conference 
    Parkin, Tim G. (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    Dr. Tim Parkin, The Tatoulis Chair In Classics, Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne opens the conference with a welcome and a brief overview of Frazer's importance. Additional Authors: ...