Golden Bough (Complete)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - *Non-fiction, Religion

Authors: James Frazer In Year : 1922

Book Language: English

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Preface & Chapters I & II
Chapters III.1 & III.2 part 1
Chapter III.2 part 2
Chapter III.3-4
Chapter IV
Chapter V.1-2
Chapter V.3-4
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII & IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI & XII
Chapter XIII & XIV
Chapter XV & XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX part 1
Chapter XX part 2
Chapter XXI part 1
Chapter XXI part 2
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII & XXIV
Chapter XXV - XXVII
Chapter XXVIII part 1
Chapter XXVIII part 2
Chapter XXIX - XXXI
Chapter XXXII & XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV - XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII & XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX
Chapter XL - XLII
Chapter XLIII & XLIV
Chapter XLV
Chapter XLVI
Chapter XLVII part 1
Chapter XLVII part 2
Chapter XLVII part 3
Chapter XLVIII part 1
Chapter XLVIII part 2
Chapter XLIX part 1
Chapter XLIX part 2
Chapter L
Chapter LI
Chapter LII
Chapter LIII
Chapter LIV & LV
Chapter LVI
Chapter LVII
Chapter LVIII & LIX
Chapter LX & LXI
Chapter LXII part 1
Chapter LXII part 2
Chapter LXIII
Chapter LXIV
Chapter LXV
Chapter LXVI
Chapter LXVII part 1
Chapter LXVII part 2
Chapter LXVIII & LXIX

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It offered a modernist approach, discussing religion dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon, rather than from a theological perspective. Although most of its theories have subsequently been exploded (the most famous one being that of the relationship between magic, religion and science), its impact on contemporaneous European literature was substantial.

The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief, ranging from ancient belief systems to relatively modern religions such as Christianity. Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that centered around the worship of, and periodic sacrifice of, a sacred king. This king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the earth, who died at the harvest, and was reincarnated in the spring. Frazer claims that this legend is central to almost all of the world’s mythologies, and he offers a plethora of colourful examples from all over the world. Moreover, his book is written in an admirable style, seldom excelled by his more modern colleagues. (From Wikipedia, with small additions by Måns Broo)