Andrew Lang, a Scottish anthropologist and folklorist, wrote the landmark paintings "Myth, Ritual, and Religion," Volume 2. This painting contributes significantly to anthropology and religious studies. In this quantity, Lang investigates the interdependence of delusion, ritual, and theology in a variety of cultures and groups. He delves into myths and rituals from numerous civilizations, inclusive of historic Greece, Rome, Egypt, and indigenous cultures. Lang studies how myths and rituals can normally play a vital function in molding a society's religious ideals and practices. He investigates the symbolic fee of myths and rituals, emphasizing their role in understanding the mysteries of lifestyles, death, and the natural world. Lang's work is top notch for its comparative approach, which connects countries to be able to find out universal topics and patterns in delusion and ritual. He contends that those traditions and ceremonies aren't simply ancient relics, but they maintain to steer present religious' practices and beliefs. Some testimonies are brutal and bizarre, while others creep up on you and draw you in slowly. With an attention grabbing new cover and professionally typeset replica, this version of "Myth, Ritual, and Religion Vol. 2" is both present day and intelligible.

Andrew Lang FBA (31 March 1844 - 20 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, writer, literary critic, and anthropologist. He is primarily known for amassing folk and fairy stories. Andrew Lang lectures are named after him at the University of St Andrews. Lang was born in Selkirk, Scottish Borders, in 1844. He was the eldest of eight children born to John Lang, the Selkirk town clerk, and his wife Jane Plenderleath Sellar, the daughter of Patrick Sellar, the first Duke of Sutherland's factor. On April 17, 1875, he married Leonora Blanche Alleyne, the youngest daughter of Clifton and Barbados businessman C. T. Alleyne. Lang's Color/Rainbow Fairy Books, which he edited, were alternately credited to her as author, collaborator, or translator.