Title: MAGIC AND RELIGION
Author: Andrew Lang
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co.
City: LondonYear: 1901 (First Edition)Binding Style: Hardcover
Pagination: 316; followed by 32-page publisher's catalog at rearIllustrated: No
Book Details + Condition: First edition from 1901 of Andrew Lang's MAGIC AND RELIGION. Bound in publisher's original gilt-decorated
navy blue cloth. Contents include: Science and
superstition; The theory of loan-gods, or borrowed religion; Magic and religion;
The origin of the Christian faith; The approaches to Mr. Frazer's theory; Attempts
to prove the Sacaean criminal divine; Zakmuk, Sacaea, and Purim; Mordecai,
Esther, Vashti, and Haman; Why was the mock-king of the Sacaea whipped and
hanged?; Calvary; The ghastly priest; South African religion; "Cup and
ring:" An old problem solved; First-fruits and taboos; Walking through
fire; Appendices: Mr. Tylor's theory of borrowing; The martyrdom of Dasius; The
ride of the beardless one. Ex-library, but in overall very good condition: mark on spine; bent corners; stamp on title page; otherwise clean and free of interior markings.
Andrew Lang was a prolific Scottish
scholar, folklorist, anthropologist, historian, and classic children's author. He
is best known for his popular 12 volume fairy books. His work "represents
the first maturing of a scientific interest in the folk narrative as a means of
discovering the nature of primeval man and the details of his unrecorded
history."
