The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth

by Wendy Doniger

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231111703
• ISBN13: 9780231111706
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"