Browsing by Subject "Literary criticism"

Browsing by Subject "Literary criticism"

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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 ...
  • "Hypothesis as Theory: The Obstinate Nostrums in Biblical Studies and the Humanities 
    Chester (Biblical scholar), Ryan (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    The idea of religious studies and religion convenes at the intersection of anachronism, pragmatism, and the non sequitur. The religious concept itself, although sanctioned with formal authority, is nonetheless premised on ...
  • The Legacy of The Golden Bough in the Interpretation of Early Sumerian Myth: The Case of Ninsumun and Lugalbanda 
    Linder, Nadia (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    Many tenets first formulated by Sir James Frazer in his magnum opus The Golden Bough still survive to this day in discussions of ancient Mesopotamian cult, myth, and religion. As a case study for the still pernicious ...
  • Moon and Huntress: Frazer’s Arician Diana in Italian-American Witchcraft 
    Tully, Caroline (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    Dr. Carolina Tully explores Raven Grimassi's book Italian Witchcraft and the influence of Frazer's Golden Bough on his theory of Strega origins and its relationship to the goddess Diana. Additional Authors: Shaking the ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Perils of Othering and Brothering: Some Thoughts on Dying Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia 
    Scurlock, JoAnne (Prudence Priest Collection of the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    The Frazerian Fertility Cult is the mirror image of a culture that is at the same time sex-obsessed and deeply uncomfortable on the subject. From earliest times in ancient Mesopotamia, overpopulation was a serious concern ...
  • Pomegranate 1 (February 1997) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1997-02)
    Aradia and the Revival of Modern Witchcraft / by Chas S. Clifton -- The Golden Ass of Luciius Apuleius / by Maggie Carew -- Pagan Deism: Three Views / by Margarian Bridger -- Book Reviews: Inside the Sieve: A Scholarly ...
  • Pomegranate 10 (November 1999) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1999-11)
    Readers' Forum. Few's Harran, Siedhwork and 'Ergi', Pagan Myth, the Witch Hunt, Zell on the Letter to the Pope -- Religion, Violence, and Radical Environmentalism / by Bron Taylor -- Weaving a Tangled Web?: Pagan Ethics ...
  • Pomegranate 13 (August 2000) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 2000-08)
    Readers' Forum. Don Frew's Harran Hypothesis -- Spells, Saints, and Streghe: Witchcraft, Folk Magic, and Healing in Italy / by Sabina Magliocco -- Blót on the Landscape: Re-reading Pope Gregory's Letter on the Heathen ...
  • Pomegranate 14 (November 2000) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 2000-11)
    Readers' Forum. Cynthia Eller on The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory -- Wicca, Esotericism and Living Nature: Assessing Wicca as Nature Religion / by Jo Pearson -- Psychotherapist and Wiccan Clergy: The Ethics of a Dual ...
  • Pomegranate 15 (February 2001) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 2001-02)
    Readers' Forum. Cynthia Eller replies to Hayden, Raven Grimassi replies to Magliocco -- Fascist Ecology: The 'Green Wing' of the Nazi Party and its Historical Antecendents / by Peter Staudenmaier -- Modernity, Magickal ...
  • Pomegranate 16 (May 2001) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 2001-05)
    Readers' Forum. Starhawk and Michael York on the Atlantic Monthly article, Sabina Magliocco and Raven Grimassi on Stregheria, Gus diZerega and Ann-Marie Gallagher on the 'Green' Nazis, Angeline Kantola on Science and Chaos ...
  • Pomegranate 17 (August 2001) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 2001-08)
    Readers' Forum. Jo Pearson on Margaret Murray, Daniel Cohen on Entheogens, More on the Atlantic Monthly article -- A Modest Look at Ritual Nudity / by Ronald Hutton -- 'Terror of Unseen Things': Saki and the fin-de-sièle ...
  • Pomegranate 18 (February 2002) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 2002-02)
    Readers' Forum. Schulke on Solanaceae; Kantola on Chaos Magic; Staudenmaeir and deZerega on the "Green Nazis" -- Who Was Aradia?: The History and Development of a Legend / by Sabina Magliocco -- WOmen as Initiators and ...
  • Pomegranate 2 (August 1997) 
    Unknown author (The Pomegranate, 1997-08)
    Why We Don't Know about the Ancient Celts / by Rowan Fairgrove -- The Neolithic Great Goddess: A Study In Modern Tradition / by Ronald Hutton -- Margaret St. Clair, Forgotten Foremother of Pagan Science Fiction / by Chas ...