The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680-1860

By Burton Feldman and Robert D. Richardson Jr.

Book Overview

"... peerless... " --The Key Reporter "... this book is a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure." --Choice "... so good as it stands... one should simply be happy to have it." --The Journal of the History of Ideas "... an original, compendious, and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." --The American Scholar "The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism; more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book that we need now." --Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, The University of Chicago

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253350123
• ISBN13: 9780253350121
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.8"