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Golden Bough (1922 Abridged Edition)

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It offered a modernist approach, discussing religion dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon, rather than from a theological perspective. Although most of its theories have subsequently been exploded (the most famous one being that of the relationship between magic, religion and science), its impact on contemporaneous European literature was substantial.

The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief, ranging from ancient belief systems to relatively modern religions such as Christianity. Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that centered around the worship of, and periodic sacrifice of, a sacred king. This king was the incarnation of a dying and reviving god, a solar deity who underwent a mystic marriage to a goddess of the earth, who died at the harvest, and was reincarnated in the spring. Frazer claims that this legend is central to almost all of the world’s mythologies, and he offers a plethora of colourful examples from all over the world. Moreover, his book is written in an admirable style, seldom excelled by his more modern colleagues. (From Wikipedia, with small additions by Måns Broo)

Year of Publication: 1922Genres: Religion , *Non-fiction

Running Time: 42 hours 43 minutes 54 seconds

#	Chapter Name
	Preface & Chapters I & II hefyd	43:16
	Chapters III.1 & III.2 part 1 hefyd	47:42
	Chapter III.2 part 2 hefyd	49:43
	Chapter III.3-4 hefyd	39:06
	Chapter IV hefyd	41:35
	Chapter V.1-2 Jim Eastman	55:20
	Chapter V.3-4 Leon Mire	18:05
	Chapter VI Måns Broo	26:47
	Chapter VII Måns Broo	52:39
	Chapter VIII & IX Måns Broo	48:42
	Chapter X Måns Broo	48:36
	Chapter XI & XII Måns Broo	36:06
	Chapter XIII & XIV hefyd	44:54
	Chapter XV & XVI Christie Nowak	24:32
	Chapter XVII Måns Broo	36:14
	Chapter XVIII hefyd	59:11
	Chapter XIX Mira Cheskis	29:05
	Chapter XX part 1 hefyd	36:56
	Chapter XX part 2 hefyd	42:34
	Chapter XXI part 1 hefyd	38:28
	Chapter XXI part 2 hefyd	39:30
	Chapter XXII hefyd	1:05:19
	Chapter XXIII & XXIV hefyd	1:17:38
	Chapter XXV - XXVII Sheila Morton	37:19
	Chapter XXVIII part 1 hefyd	43:25
	Chapter XXVIII part 2 hefyd	1:00:16
	Chapter XXIX - XXXI Tysto	42:47
	Chapter XXXII & XXXIII hefyd	42:03
	Chapter XXXIV - XXXVI hefyd	31:42
	Chapter XXXVII & XXXVIII Leon Mire	41:50
	Chapter XXXIX Leon Mire	32:45
	Chapter XL - XLII Leon Mire	29:16
	Chapter XLIII & XLIV Sarah Jennings	40:12
	Chapter XLV hefyd	47:31
	Chapter XLVI hefyd	44:35
	Chapter XLVII part 1 hefyd	28:11
	Chapter XLVII part 2 hefyd	25:45
	Chapter XLVII part 3 hefyd	34:22
	Chapter XLVIII part 1 hefyd	37:14
	Chapter XLVIII part 2 hefyd	27:59
	Chapter XLIX part 1 hefyd	31:34
	Chapter XLIX part 2 hefyd	27:06
	Chapter L JoeD	52:22
	Chapter LI Andrew Coleman	18:52
	Chapter LII Måns Broo	1:03:38
	Chapter LIII Måns Broo	45:57
	Chapter LIV & LV Måns Broo	46:06
	Chapter LVI Måns Broo	50:47
	Chapter LVII JoeD	1:00:12
	Chapter LVIII & LIX JoeD	56:36
	Chapter LX & LXI JoeD	1:06:07
	Chapter LXII part 1 JoeD	48:39
	Chapter LXII part 2 JoeD	1:09:53
	Chapter LXIII JoeD	34:29
	Chapter LXIV JoeD	31:04
	Chapter LXV JoeD	34:27
	Chapter LXVI JoeD	45:35
	Chapter LXVII part 1 JoeD	50:36
	Chapter LXVII part 2 JoeD	34:40
	Chapter LXVIII & LXIX hefyd	46:05