The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
10 best books like The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales (G. Ronald Murphy): Morphology of the Folktale, The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers, Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales, The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales, Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride: A Psychological Study, The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library, Norms and Nobility: A Treatise on Education
Morphology of the Folktale
| Author | Vladimir Propp |
| ISBN | 0292783760 |
Morphology will in all probability be regarded by future generations as one of the major theoretical breakthroughs in the field of folklore in the twentieth century. -- Alan Dundes. Propp's work is seminal...[and], now that it is available in a new edition, should be even more valuable to folklorists...
The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World
| Author | David Ulansey |
| ISBN | 0195067886 |
In the centuries following the conquests of Alexander the Great the dramatic unification of the Mediterranean world created exceptionally fertile soil for the growth of new religions. Christianity, for example, was one of the innovative religious movements that arose during this time. However,...
| Author | Carole G. Silver |
| ISBN | 0195121996 |
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources...
| Author | Catherine Orenstein |
| ISBN | 0465041264 |
In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house, and how, from the nursery on, fairy tales influence our view of the...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0374524874 |
In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers...
| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
| ISBN | 0877739749 |
Fairy tales seem to be innocent stories, yet they contain profound lessons for those who would dive deep into their waters of meaning. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz uncovers some of the important lessons concealed in tales from around the world, drawing on the wealth of her knowledge of folklore,...
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0198605099 |
From its ancient roots in the oral tradition to the postmodernist reworkings of the present day, the fairy tale has retained its powerful hold over the cultural imagination of Europe and North America. Now The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales provides the first authoritative reference source for this...
| Author | Marion Woodman |
| ISBN | 0919123112 |
Some of this book was kind of insane but I did find a lot of it REALLY helpful and interesting. I underlined a lot of sentences. I guess I’ve become the kind of person who reads books recommended by Tori Amos and finds them genuinely useful ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
| Author | Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie |
| ISBN | 0933999518 |
As I said about the Presocratics and Stoics in other reviews, all the writings of the first Pythagoreans and of Pythagoras have disappeared and the fragments attributed to Pythagoras are contested. But, if not an exhaustive account of later Pythagorean writings and thought, this book is at least a...
| Author | David V. Hicks |
| ISBN | 0761814671 |
A reissue of a classic text, Norms and Nobility is a provocative reappraisal of classical education that offers a workable program for contemporary school reform. David Hicks contends that the classical tradition promotes a spirit of inquiry that is concerned with the development of style and conscience,...
Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0874835917 |
Subtitled "Fantasy, Faerie, and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood," this small book of essays was first my position papers for the EdD I never quite got. Originally published in hardcover by Philomel and then brought out a few years later in a trade paperback, this book of essays has become well...
Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives
| Author | Maria Tatar |
| ISBN | 0691127832 |
The tale of Bluebeard's Wife--the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses--no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children. But the story has remained alive for adults, allowing it to...
The Scandal of the Incarnation: Irenaeus Against the Heresies
| Author | Irenaeus of Lyons |
| ISBN | 0898703158 |
Saint Irenaeus was the first great Christian theologian. Born in Asia Minor in about 130 A.D., he became Bishop of Lyons and died as a martyr early in the third century. His main work, Adversus Haereses (Against the Heresies), is as relevant today as it was eighteen hundred years ago. It is a critique of...
The Bible Made Impossible: Why Biblicism Is Not a Truly Evangelical Reading of Scripture
| Author | Christian Smith |
| ISBN | 1587433036 |
Biblicism, an approach to the Bible common among some American evangelicals, emphasizes together the Bible's exclusive authority, infallibility, clarity, self-sufficiency, internal consistency, self-evident meaning, and universal applicability. Acclaimed sociologist Christian Smith...
Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life
| Author | Philippe Ariès |
| ISBN | 0394702867 |
The theme of this extraordinary book is the evolution of the modern conception of family life and the modern image; of the nature of children. Aries traces the evolution of the concept of childhood from the end of the Middle Ages, when the child was regarded as a small adult, to the present child-centered...
The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante
| Author | Charles Williams |
| ISBN | 0976402548 |
One of the most ambitious essays in the interpretation of Dante our time has seen...his interpretation of the role of Beatrice is a subtle and individual one. Charles Williams was one of the finest-not to mention one of the most unusual-theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable-the...
From Mouse to Mermaid: The Politics of Film, Gender, and Culture
| Author | Elizabeth Bell |
| ISBN | 0253209781 |
From Mouse to Mermaid, an interdisciplinary collection of original essays, is the first comprehensive, critical treatment of Disney cinema. Addressing children's classics as well as the Disney affiliates' more recent attempts to capture adult audiences, the contributors respond to the Disney...
This Is My Body: From Obesity to Ironman, My Journey into the True Meaning of Flesh, Spirit, and Deeper Faith
| Author | Ragan Sutterfield |
| ISBN | 1601425511 |
“The cacophony of voices about our bodies is so loud, it’s hard to hear the voices that matter. Some of us decide to forget it all and give in to one addiction or another. I’ve done that. Some of us decide to perfect our bodies and obsess over every muscle or wrinkle. I’ve done that too. Then I discovered...
Good Girls and Wicked Witches: Changing Representations of Women in Disney's Feature Animation, 1937-2001
| Author | Amy M. Davis |
| ISBN | 0861966732 |
In Good Girls and Wicked Witches, Amy M. Davis re-examines the notion that Disney heroines are rewarded for passivity. Davis proceeds from the assumption that, in their representations of femininity, Disney films both reflected and helped shape the attitudes of the wider society, both at the time...
Jesus, the Final Days: What Really Happened
| Author | Craig A. Evans |
| ISBN | 0664233597 |
One of the signs of a good book is the way it leaves you wanting more rather than wishing you had not wasted time on it. This is the sort of book where one would want more, a lot more, than one gets. The work of a symposium that seeks to bridge the divide between theologians and scholars of biblical history, this...
The Gospel According to the Simpsons
| Author | Mark I. Pinsky |
| ISBN | 0664224199 |
Early in the introduction to The Gospel According to The Simpsons, the great 20th century theological voice, Reinhold Niebuhr, is quoted: “Humor is a prelude to faith, and laughter is the beginning of prayer.” (p. 5) This is immediately followed by an observation that humor which is not founded...
