1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910164048003321

Autore

Muesse Mark W.

Titolo

Four wise men : the lives and teachings of Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad / / Mark W. Muesse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eugene, Oregon : , : Cascade Books, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4982-3223-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages)

Disciplina

200.922

Soggetti

Religious biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Confucious -- The Buddha -- Jesus -- Muhammad.

Sommario/riassunto

Confucius, the Buddha, Jesus, and Muhammad are among the most thoughtful and influential people in history. By their words and examples, they have inspired countless individuals to live better and more meaningful lives and have shaped the institutions and worldviews we live in today. Four Wise Men is an accessible introduction to each of these sages in his historical context and a provocative comparison of their lives and teachings. Through careful study, this book examines the ways these fascinating figures speak as one and the ways they differ. Although their voices come from the distant past, they still have wise words to say to us today" --back cover.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910776162703321

Autore

Krader Lawrence

Titolo

Myth and ideology / / Lawrence Krader ; edited by Cyril Levitt, Sabine Sander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Peter Lang, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-4331-7204-6

1-4331-7203-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 pages)

Disciplina

201.3

Soggetti

Ideology

Myth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / by Mayán Cervantes -- Myth in classical antiquity. Plato and Aristotle and the myth of the ancient wisdom -- Myth in the Renaissance and Enlightenment. The deciphering of myth -- Myth in the nineteenth century -- Durkheim and his school. Alcheringa, or Dreamtime -- Myth as the myth of others.  Biblical Myth. Myth of Gilgamesh -- The force of myth in our own time. Myth in ideology. Sorel, Pareto, Weber, Mannheim -- Myth of another time and space. Buber, Otto, Cassirer, Langer, Jensen on the psychic unity of the humankind -- Myths of the North Pacific peoples. Boas, Gogoraz, Jochelson. The myth of Asdiwal/Asihwil. -- Winnebago trickster myths. Radin, Malinowski, Kluckhohn -- What is true myth? Pawnee creation and coyote myths. Dorsey and Grinnell -- Structuralists, Lévi-Strauss, Leach -- Myths and universals -- The treatment of myth as a code -- Myth of the law in the Book of Daniel -- Esoteric and exoteric myth. Bella Coola myth. The myth of the drunken goddess -- The state as myth and myths of the state. Hegel and the march of god through the world. Hobbes, Leviathan and Behemoth -- Sacred and secular myth -- Myth in the making. The transition from one myth to another. Benedetto Croce, Barrington Moore, Karl Popper -- Myth, the known and the unknown. The myth of Theseus and Sciron -- Myth and ideology.



Sommario/riassunto

Myth and Ideologydevelops a general theory of myth by reviewing esoteric and exoteric myths from many parts of the world from ancient times to the late twentieth century, highlighting the major approaches to the study of myth and ideology.