The Spirituality of Avalon
What it is about:
“The Spirituality of Avalon” is a guide book to the religion of the Great Mother as portrayed in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Avalon books. By looking at the literary and archaeological background of the ancient, Neolithic, Celtic, Roman and Arthurian traditions the novels are set in, a close reading of the texts and a detailed understanding of the acknowledged and inferred influences inspiring the Avalon novels gives the reader the possibility to engage with the concept of the Goddess within the religion created in the Avalon cycle. It provides essential insights into a European understanding of spirituality at the beginning of the 21st century and its construction in epic fantasy fiction. At the core of it all the reader finds the figure of the Great Goddess – empowering the stories, and in return empowered by them.
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Here are some reviews from amazon:
Most fascinating. I found it easy to read and very thought-provoking. A great achievement and very inspiring, loved every minute of the book!
J.S. Morgane’s work that is based on the Avalon books of Marion Zimmer-Bradley is very well structured. It gives not only a very good chronological insight into the events as depicted in Zimmer-Bradley’s books, but also into the religion of the Great Mother Goddess in a mainly European context based on archeological, historical and political evidence. It shows how Marion Zimmer-Bradley weaves the proven facts of archeological and historical research concerning pre-historic spiritual life into a cycle of epic fantasy novels. Thus, J.S. Morgane’s book provides a very good overview on the understanding of post-modern spirituality generally and its application in fantastic literature using the example of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Avalon cycle specifically.
