Ostrovsky, Aleksandr B.

This volume should be of absorbing interest to ethnologists, anthropologists, folklorists, psychologists, specialists in the history of religion and comparative religious studies. The text of each chapter is annotated, and an extensive bibliography, charts and illustrations are provided, together with a general and subject index. About the author: Aleksandr Ostrovsky is author of several monographs and research works on mythological thought in various ethnic and cultural traditions; his recent attention has focused on religious beliefs among the Russian peasantry in the 19th and 20th centuries. In Russian