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[j minnich]

>> Bill Burns wrote:
>> 
>> Can anyone suggest some good reading in comparative religion/mythology?
>> 

Well, there's _Love in The Western World_, by Denis DeRougement which I read
(most of) recently after seeing some talk about it here on the p-list.  I
thought it alternately insightful and off the wall.  Also, along the lines
of Graves' _The White Goddess_ there's _Hamlet's Mill_ by Giorgio Santillana
& Hertha von Dechend.  And somebody just mentioned _From Ritual to Romance_
by Jessie Weston.  (I never could stand Joseph Campbell, by the way.)  There
must be a category that covers all this speculative kind of stuff, but I
don't know what it is. Somebody just mentioned Frazer's _The Golden Bough_
which I almost forgot. The abridged version (a mere 800 pages) always seemed
adequate for my span of attention.                   -j minnich
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