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An edition of The implied spider (1998)

The Implied Spider

Politics & Theology in Myth

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  • 5 Want to read

"Tapping a wealth of traditions, from the Hebrew Bible to the Bhagavad Gita, Doniger crafts a new lens for examining other cultures, and finding in the world's myths - its sacred storiesa way to talk about experiences shared across time and space." "Myths, she shows, bridge the cosmic and the familiar, the personal and the abstract, the theological and the political. They encourage us to draw various, even opposed, political meanings from a single text as it travels through different historical contexts. And she demonstrates how studying myths from cultures other than our own can be exhilarating and illuminating." "Myth, Doniger shows, provides a near-perfect entree to another culture. Even if scholars such as Freud, Jung, and Joseph Campbell typically overstated the universality of major myths and suppressed the distinctive natures of other cultures, post-colonial critics are wrong to argue that nothing good can come from a systematic comparative study of human cultures."--BOOK JACKET.

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Columbia University Press
Language
English
Pages
200

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Myth Study and teaching Methodology Mythology Mythen Étude et enseignement Mythe Mythologie Méthodologie Interculturele vergelijking
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The Implied Spider
2011, Columbia University Press
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The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth
2011, Columbia University Press
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The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth
2011, Columbia University Press
in English - [Updated ed.]
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Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth, Updated with a New Preface
2010, Columbia University Press
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The Implied Spider
October 15, 1999, Columbia University Press
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Cover of: The Implied Spider
The Implied Spider: Politics & Theology in Myth
1998, Columbia University Press
in English
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Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth
1998, Columbia University Press
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-190) and index.

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New York
Series
Lectures on the history of religions ;

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
291.1/3/01
Library of Congress
BL304 .D54 1998, BL304.D54 1998

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Pagination
x, 200 p. ;
Number of pages
200

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL679950M
ISBN 10
0231111703
LCCN
97026476
OCLC/WorldCat
37260979
LibraryThing
247855
Goodreads
1132361

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OL94340W

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