This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence across studies of ancient religions, literature, historiography and reception studies.
This multidisciplinary volume examines the ongoing effects of James G. Frazer’s The Golden Bough in modern Humanities and its wide-ranging influence across studies of ancient religions, literature, historiography, and reception studies.
The book begins by exploring the life and times of Frazer himself and the writing of The Golden Bough in its cultural milieu. It then goes on to cover a wide range of topics, including: ancient Near Eastern religion and culture; Minoan religion and in particular the origins of notions of Minoan matriarchy; Frazer’s influence on the study of Graeco-Roman religion and magic; Frazer’s influence on modern Pagan religions; and the effects of Frazer’s works in modern culture and scholarship generally. Chapters examine how modern academia and beyond continues to be influenced by the otherwise discredited theories in The Golden Bough, ideas such as Sacred Marriage and the incessant Fertility of Everything. The book demonstrates how scholarship within the Humanities as well as practitioners of alternative religions and the common public remain under the thrall of Frazer over one hundred years since the publication of the abridged edition of The Golden Bough, and what we must do to shake off that influence.
A Century of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough is of interest to scholars and students from a wide range of disciplines, including Ancient History, History of Religion, Comparative Religion, Classical Studies, Archaeology, Historiography, Anthropology, Folklore, and Reception Studies.
Editors Introduction; Preliminaries;
1. The Golden Bough: setting the
scene Tim Parkin;
2. Sir James Frazer and The Golden Bough Ronald Hutton;
3. Off With His Head!: Wilhelm Mannhardts Wald- und Feldkulte at the Roots
of The Golden Bough - Frederico Delgado Rosa;
4. The Golden Bough and the
Press Julia Phillips;
5. Hypothesis as Theory: The Golden Bough and the
Obstinate Nostrums in Religious Studies and the Humanities Ryan C. Chester;
Ancient Near East;
6. Itars Sexual Agency in Akkadian Love Literature
Martti Nissinen;
7. Dying and Rising Gods in Ancient Mesopotamian Religion
and the Frazerian Paradigm of Fertility Religion JoAnn Scurlock;
8. The
Fads that Drive Us: From Frazer, Freud, and Foucault to Butler and Connell
Stephanie Lynn Budin;
9. The Hebrew Bible Scapegoat: Complicating a Frazerian
Typology Caroline Ward Smith; Aegean and Classical;
10. Embracing the
Goddess: Evans and the Minoan feminine divine Christine Morris;
11. Guess
Whos Back, Back Again? Graeber and Wengrows Resurrection of Minoan
Matriarchy in The Dawn of Everything Stephen OBrien;
12. Same same, but
different: Frazers Sympathetic Law of Similarity and the study of
Greco-Roman defixiones Saskia Moorrees;
13. Reading about Nymphs and Roman
Soldiers with and without Frazer Isabel Köster; Pagan Studies;
14.
Surviving Frazerisms: twenty-first century Witchcraft and the eternal return
Helen Cornish;
15. Moon and Huntress: Frazers Arician Diana in
Italian-American Witchcraft Caroline J. Tully;
16. Lilith from Demoness to
Mother Goddess: a Frazerian legacy in French Luciferian Wicca? Vanessa
Toupin-Lavallée;
17. Contemporary Tree Lore and the Ancient Worship of Trees:
The Contributions of James Frazer in the Contemporary Study of Religion and
Ecology Ive Brissman; The Modern World;
18. Derivative and Associative
Popular Frazerism: A Cultural Complex at Work in Late Modern Europe
Alessandro Testa;
19. Frazer and the Magical Oath Fritz Lampe; Coda;
20.
Dianas Mirror: The Reflective Surface of Frazers The Golden Bough Robert
Fraser.
Stephanie Lynn Budin is an ancient historian specializing in Greece and the Near East. She has published numerous books and articles on sex, gender, mythology, religion, and iconography, including Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution (Routledge 2021) and Artemis (Routledge 2016). She considers herself to be the world expert on non-existent prostitution.
Caroline J. Tully is an archaeologist and curator. Her research interests include religion and ritual in the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Reception of the Ancient World, and Contemporary Paganisms. She is the author of many articles on ancient religion as well as the book The Cultic Life of Trees in the Prehistoric Aegean, Levant, Egypt, and Cyprus, and she is curator of the exhibit Amor et Mors: Vessels for the Beautiful Body in Life and Death at the Ian Potter Museum of Art.
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