Rise of Modern Mythology 1680-1860

<p> . . . peerless . . . --The Key Reporter<br /><br /> . . . this book is a first. It will be a standard . . . Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of the headnotes should make it endure. --Choice<br /><br /> . . . so good as it stands . . . one should simply be happy to have it. --The Journal of the History of Ideas <br /><br /> . . . an original compendious and highly useful contribution to historical and mythographical scholarship. --The American Scholar<br /><br />The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in the contemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism; more than any book I know it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation of non-Western mythologies from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to Tibetan Buddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book that we need now. --Wendy Doniger Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions The University of Chicago</p>