Mythen
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9789023418016 (9023418018)
Publish date: October 2005
Publisher: Bezige Bij
Pages no: 128
Edition language: Dutch
Category:
Fantasy,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
Reference,
Culture,
Religion,
Philosophy,
Spirituality,
Mythology,
Folklore
Series: Canongate Myths (#1)
A Short History of Myth lives up to its title but despite its brevity is well worth reading. It’s an extended introductory essay to the Canongate Myth series, several volumes of which I’ve read: Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad, Jeanette Winterson’s Weight, and A.S. Byatt’s Ragnarok, respectively, r...
The first third of this book by Karen Armstrong overlaps much of the same material covered by Barbara J. King in her book Evolving God where she discusses the origins of religion from an anthropological point of view. (link to my review of Evolving God.) King uses the word "religion" where Armstro...
A rather nice overview. Armstrong tells things clearly and doesn't make the reader feel stupid. There is plently about myth connecting to religion, in particular how the age of Enlighment led to a reading of the Bible as truth, which Armstrong points out does a disservice to reliigon and myth. I ...
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