Myth, Ritual and Religion (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. Cross-cultural folklore and ritual origins: totemism, animism, taboo, solar-myth debates, and early high godsBy Andrew Lang
Length5h 37m
About this audiobook
Myth, Ritual and Religion (Vols. I & II) is Andrew Lang's far‑ranging inquiry into the origins and transformations of sacred narrative. Marrying classical learning to the new comparative anthropology, he tests the "solar myth" and evolutionary schools against folktale corpora, travelers' reports, and ritual practice from Australia and the Americas to Greece and Scandinavia. Urbane, precise, and wry, his style combines scrupulous citation with close motif analysis and attention to totemism, taboo, and early "high gods." A Scottish classicist, folklorist, and journalist, Lang studied at St Andrews and Oxford and popularized ballads and fairy tales while engaging London learned societies. His distaste for armchair philology and his respect for ethnographic evidence inform his revisions: that moralized supreme beings may precede priesthoods and that myth resists reduction to a single physical allegory. Scholars and students of religion, folklore, and classical reception will find these volumes indispensable: a methodological primer and an encyclopedic archive in one. Read it to see Victorian debate at its sharpest, to sharpen your own comparative practice, and to encounter sacred stories with humane skepticism and durable curiosity.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreSpirituality and Religion
Length5 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2Introduction
3Synopsis
4Historical Context
5Myth, Ritual and Religion (Vol. 1&2) (pt. 1)
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6Myth, Ritual and Religion (Vol. 1&2) (pt. 2)
7Analysis
8Reflection
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