Books by "James G. Stephens"
12 books found
History and Roster of Maryland Volunteers, War of 1861-5
by Maryland. Commission on the Publication of the Histories of the Maryland Volunteers during the Civil War, L. Allison Wilmer, James H. Jarrett, Geo. W. F. Vernon, George W. F. Vernon
1899
Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.
Originals and Analogues of Some of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales"...
by Frederick James Furnivall, Edmund Brock, William Alexander Clouston
1872
The Golden Bough: Bibliography and general index. 3d ed., rev. and enl. 1915
by James George Frazer
1915
British animals extinct within historic times; with some account of British wild white cattle
by James Edmund Harting
1880