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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The Hebrew Bible Scapegoat: Complicating a Frazerian Typology 
    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    Although now methodologically outdated, The Golden Bough is credited with making decisive the scapegoat’s meaning as the innocent surrogate victim who is blamed and punished for the deeds of others.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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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: ...
  • 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 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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.
  • Sex and Civil Rights: The True Selma Story 
    Persons, Albert C. (Esco Publishers, 1965)
    The magazine itself is around 33 pages long and is in a rough condition with water damage on many pages. There are multiple articles throughout the magazine focusing on many issues. Firstly the article talks about the rise ...
  • Negro-White Unity 
    Winston, Henry (New Outlook Publishers, 1967-02)
    This 31 page booklet is in excellent condition. In the booklet the author talks about the ongoing offensive against racism. He urges the preparations for the 1966 elections after the 1964 elections were concluded. The ...
  • Bennet family assorted memorabilia 
    Unknown author (Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, 1900s)
    ca-005_f08_recent-memorabilia_pg001-003: Quitman High School Monthly, Term, and Annual Report of Mildred Bennet, 1919-20. ca-005_f08_recent-memorabilia_pg004-010: In Memoriam address for Reverend Edward Abiel Stevens, ...
  • Bennet family genealogy notes 
    Unknown author (Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, ca. 1986)
    Notes on the genealogy of the Bennet family, spanning several generations, with dates from 1623 to 1986.
  • Letter to Paul and May Beck Bennet, ca. 1939-1945 
    Bennet, Samuel Stevens (Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, 1939-1945)
    Letter from Samuel Stevens Bennet to his nephew, Paul Hansell Bennet, and wife, May Beck (Mary Rebeca), sharing some of his memories after a recent visit to their house, where he grew up. His recollections include his ...
  • Bennett Collection Photographs, 1900s 
    Unknown author (Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, 1900)
    6 photograph scans, 2 film negatives (duplicates). ca-005_f06_photographs_p01: [Photograph of Matthew Bennet's grave]. (n.d.). Undated photograph of Matthew Bennet III's grave in Liberty County, Georgia. Caption: Sacred ...
  • Letter and poetry to Miss Hattie, 1887 May 16 
    Bennet, William Baker (Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, 1887)
    A letter from W.B. (William Baker) Bennet to Harriet ("Hattie") L. Stevens, dated May 16th, 1887, in Quitman, regarding a recent visit in which he expressed romantic feelings which she did not reciprocate, and promising ...
  • An Anniversary Oration: Patronage of the Arts and Sciences, 1848 February 22 
    Bennet, William Baker (Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, 1848)
    The text of a speech written and delivered by W. B. Bennet (William Baker Bennet, 1827-1908) before the Phi Delta Society on February 22, 1848, at Mercer University, then located in Penfield, Georgia. Bennet describes the ...