Browsing MS-150-40: Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100 by Issue Date

Browsing MS-150-40: Shaking the Tree, Breaking the Bough: Frazer's Golden Bough at 100 by Issue Date

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  • 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 ...
  • 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: ...
  • 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.
  • 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 ...
  • 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", ...
  • 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 ...
  • Nissinen, Martti (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    First Keynote Speaker. The goddess Ištar has multiple gendered agencies in Mesopotamian texts. She features as a lover, mother, daughter, as well as an independent sexual agent who is capable of transgressing gender ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Smith, Caroline (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    Although now methodologically outdated, The Golden Bough is credited with making decisive the scapegoat’s meaning as the innocent surrogate victim who is blamed and punished for the deeds of others. This victim’s namesake, ...
  • Corrente, Paola (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    In this presentation, Correntel discusses the myths of Inanna/Ishtar's, Baal's and Dionysus's death and resurrection in a comparative perspective, moving from textual evidence. He also addresses the major critical points ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...

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