Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist whose monumental work The Golden Bough (1890; expanded 1906-15) catalogued myths, magic, and religion across cultures, arguing for a developmental sequence from magic to religion to science.
Established comparative mythology and ritual studies as a scholarly discipline; his dying-and-rising god archetype profoundly shaped 20th-century literary and religious thought.
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