Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol 1

by Andrew Lang

1913 · Ebookslib

When this book first appeared (1886), the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and opposed by the author. In Science, as on the Turkish throne of old, Amurath to Amurath succeeds; the philological theories of religion and myth have now yielded to anthropological methods. The centre of the anthropological position was the ghost theory of Mr

Collecting Nature

by Andrew G. Kirk

2001

Finds in the history of Denver's Conservation Library a microcosm of the growth of the environmental movement as a whole.