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    The Golden Bough (Barnes & Noble Digital Library): A Study in Magic and Religion

    By James George Frazer

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    A work that echoes from Freud to Apocalypse Now, this sweeping, controversial, and still influential synthesis of human history is based on the author’s pioneering studies of mythology and religion. Frazer proposes that civilization began by investing in the theories of primitive magic, then progressing through religion, and ending with a belief in the scientific. He finds parallels between Christianity and earlier myths, cults, and rites.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateMar 20, 2012
    ISBN9781411464964
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