Books at AAR That I Could Not Resist
Checking some of the post-AAR blogging, I see people listing book purchases from the publishers' exhibit. Here are mine:
• The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction. (I should also get Kocku's Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge, and I need something by the discipline's éminence grise, Antoine Faivre, such as Access to Western Esotericism.)
• Doug Cowan's Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen. That's research material too. Doug is one of those scholars who manages to teach effectively, write a lot, and still have a life.
• Ordered for later delivery, Ronald Hutton's Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain.
• The Western Esoteric Traditions: A Historical Introduction. (I should also get Kocku's Western Esotericism: A Brief History of Secret Knowledge, and I need something by the discipline's éminence grise, Antoine Faivre, such as Access to Western Esotericism.)
. (I should also get Kocku's 
, and I need something by the discipline's éminence grise, 
.)• Doug Cowan's Sacred Terror: Religion and Horror on the Silver Screen. That's research material too. Doug is one of those scholars who manages to teach effectively, write a lot, and still have a life.
. That's research material too. Doug is one of those scholars who manages to teach effectively, write a lot, and still have a life.• Ordered for later delivery, Ronald Hutton's Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain.
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posted by Chas S. Clifton at 4:09 PM Permalink
3 Comments:
Hey - would you be interested in joining me on Goodreads? I suspect, given this post, that there's a bunch of stuff you've read that I'd like to know about.
Thanks, but I am wary of committing to anything that requires a regular contribution or data input, beyond my blogs, of course.
Chas, I am fairly confident that you will absolutely love Doug's latest book. I was privileged to interview him on the book as it took shape:
http://www.theofantastique.com/2007/08/27/interview-with-doug-cowan-the-unholy-human-fanaticism-and-fear-of-the-flesh/
http://www.theofantastique.com/2007/02/19/douglas-cowan-and-sacred-terror-part-2/
http://www.theofantastique.com/2007/02/16/douglas-cowan-and-sacred-terror-part-1/
Enjoy the book and I hope to see a review here in the future.
John
P.S. Doug is now working on a book that addresses religion in science fiction. It promises to be just as good.
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