Symbolism eBooks Collection

Symbolism is the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork, events, or natural phenomena, by a religion. Religions view religious texts, rituals, and works of art as symbols of compelling ideas or ideals. Symbols help create a resonant mythos expressing the moral values of the society or the teachings of the religion, foster solidarity among adherents, and bring adherents closer to their object of worship. The study of religious symbolism is either universalist, as a component of comparative religion and mythology, or in localized scope, within the confines of a religion's limits and boundaries.

Symbolic anthropology is the study of cultural symbols and how those symbols can be interpreted to better understand a particular society. It is often viewed in contrast to cultural materialism.

A PDF collection of 99 eBooks about Symbolism. eBooks are sorted on publisher's name.

Academic Press Symbols and Sentiments, Cross-cultural Studies in Symbolism (1977) (no OCR).pdf
Allen & Unwin Publishing Symbolism and Belief (1938).pdf
Almond Press The Forging of Israel, Iron Technology Symbolism and Tradition in Ancient Society (1990).pdf
Ashgate Publishing Legal Symbolism, On Law Time and European Identity (2007).pdf
Ashgate Publishing Su-un and His World of Symbols, The Founder of KoreaÆs First Indigenous Religion (2009).pdf
Barnes & Noble Inc. Symbols of Freemasonry (2003) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Brill Publishing Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art (2008).pdf
Brill Publishing Living Water, Images Symbols and Settings of Early Christian Baptism (2011).pdf
Brill Publishing Symbolic Scores, Studies in the Music of the Renaissance (1994) (no OCR).pdf
Brill Publishing The Higher Self in Christopher Brennan's Poems, Esotericism Romanticism Symbolism (2006).pdf
Brill Publishing The Self as Symbolic Space, Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran (2004).pdf
Brill Publishing The Symbolic Language of Royal Authority in the Carolingian World 751-877 (2008).pdf
Brill Publishing To Your Tents O Israel, The Terminology Function Form and Symbolism of Tents in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (2002).pdf
Cache Press Handbook of Treasure Signs and Symbols (1980).pdf
Cambridge University Press A Dictionary of Literary Symbols 2nd (2007).pdf
Cambridge University Press A History of Russian Symbolism (1994).pdf
Cambridge University Press Freud, Psychoanalysis and Symbolism (1999).pdf
Cambridge University Press Goethe the Alchemist, A Study of Alchemical Symbolism in Goethe's Literary and Scientific Works (1952).pdf
Cambridge University Press Symbolic Structures, An Exploration of the Culture of the Dowayos (1983).pdf
Cambridge University Press Symbolic Worlds, Art Science Language Ritual (1997).pdf
Cambridge University Press Symbolic and Structural Archaeology (1982).pdf
Cambridge University Press Symbolism, Its Meaning and Effect (1958) (no OCR).pdf
Cambridge University Press The Temple and the Community in Qumran and the New Testament, A Comparative Study (1965).pdf
Cambridge University Press Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean, The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle (1996).pdf
Celephais Press Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism 2nd (2004).pdf
Central European University Press Fears and Symbols, An Introduction to the Study of Western Civilization (2001).pdf
Chronicle Books The Secret Language of Symbols, A Visual Key to Symbols and Their Meanings (1994) (no OCR).pdf
Columbia University Press Symbolic Anthropology, A Reader in the Study of Symbols and Meanings (1977) (no OCR).pdf
Constable and Company Ltd Symbols, Their Migration and Universality (1894).pdf
Continuum International Publishing Deep Symbols, Their Postmodern Effacement and Reclamation (1996).pdf
Continuum International Publishing Islam in the School Curriculum, Symbolic Pedagogy and Cultural Claims (2010).pdf
Cornell University Press Walbiri Iconography, Graphic Representation and Cultural Symbolism in Central Australian Society (1973) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Crown Publishers Secret Symbolism in Occult Art (1987) (no OCR).pdf
Da Capo Press The First Idea, How Symbols Language and Intelligence Evolved from Our Primate Ancestors to Modern Humans (2004) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Davies Group Publishing Significations, Signs Symbols and Images in the Interpretation of Religion (1999).pdf
Doubleday Publishing Man and His Symbols (1964) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Dover Publications The Symbolism of the Tarot, Philosophy of Occultism in Pictures and Numbers (1976).pdf
Duke University Press The Fame of Gawa, A Symbolic Study of Value Transformation in a Massim Society (1992) (no OCR).pdf
Eisenbrauns Publishing The Symbolism of the Biblical World, Ancient Near Eastern Iconography and the Book of Psalms (1997).pdf
Facts On File Dictionary of Symbolism, Cultural Icons and the Meanings Behind Them (1992).pdf
Falmer Press The Symbolic Order, A Contemporary Reader on the Arts Debate (1989).pdf
Greenwood Press Fabulous Creatures Mythical Monsters and Animal Power Symbols, A Handbook (2008).pdf
Greenwood Press The Dress of Women, A Critical Introduction to the Symbolism and Sociology of Clothing (2002).pdf
Harper & Row Publishers Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (1974).pdf
Harvard University Press Ecology and the Arts in Ancient Panama, On the Development of Social Rank and Symbolism in the Central Provinces (1977).pdf
Harvard University Press Philosophy in a New Key, A Study in the Symbolism of Reason Rite and Art (1954).pdf
Inner City Books Alchemy, An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology in Jungian Psychology (1980).pdf
Inner Traditions International Publishing Symbol and the Symbolic, Ancient Egypt Science and the Evolution of Consciousness (1981).pdf
Intellect Books Signs Symbols and Icons, Pre-history to the Computer Age (1997).pdf
Kessinger Publishing Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism 2nd (1874).pdf
Kessinger Publishing Divine Symbols (2003) (no OCR).pdf
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Self and Identity, Personal Social and Symbolic (2002).pdf
Leiden University Press Cities Full of Symbols, A Theory of Urban Space and Culture (2011).pdf
Martinus Nijhoff Publishers Manual on the Wearing of Religious Symbols in Public Areas (2009).pdf
McBride Nast & Company Symbolism of Animals and Birds, Represented in Church Architecture (1913).pdf
Oxford University Press Medieval Marriage, Symbolism and Society (2005).pdf
Oxford University Press Paulinus Noster, Self and Symbols in the Letters of Paulinus of Nola (2000).pdf
Oxford University Press Purity Sacrifice and the Temple, Symbolism and Supersessionism in the Study of Ancient Judaism (2006).pdf
Oxford University Press Symbols of Substance, Court and State in Nayaka Period Tamilnadu (1992) (no OCR).pdf
PIMS Biblical and Liturgical Symbols within the Pseudo-Dionysian Synthesis (1984).pdf
Palgrave Macmillan Process Reality and the Power of Symbols, Thinking with A. N. Whitehead (2007).pdf
Palgrave Macmillan Symbolic Cities in Caribbean Literature (2009).pdf
Palgrave Macmillan X-Rated, The Power of Mythic Symbolism in Popular Culture (2009).pdf
Phanes Press The Magical Calendar, A Synthesis of Magial Symbolism from the 17th-Century Renaissance of Medieval Occultism (1994) (no OCR).pdf
Polity Press Language and Symbolic Power (1991) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Quest Books Jesus Christ Sun of God, Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism (1993).pdf
Routledge Press A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols, Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought (1986).pdf
Routledge Press A Dictionary of Symbols 2nd (1971).pdf
Routledge Press Ethno-Symbolism and Nationalism, A Cultural Approach (2009).pdf
Routledge Press Shared Idioms, Sacred Symbols and the Articulation of Identities in South Asia (2009).pdf
Routledge Press Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature (2002).pdf
Routledge Press Transformation of the Psyche, The Symbolic Alchemy of the Spendour Solis (2003).pdf
Routledge Press Vocabularies of Public Life, Empirical Essays in Symbolic Structure (1992).pdf
SPCK Publishing Saints, Signs and Symbols 2nd (1999).pdf
SPCK Publishing The Gate of Heaven, The History and Symbolism of the Temple in Jerusalem (1991) (Scan, OCR).pdf
Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers The Diamond and the Star, An Exploration of their Symbolic Meaning in an Insecure Age (2009).pdf
State University of New York Press Paradise and Paradigm, Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Baha'i Faith (1999).pdf
State University of New York Press Recreating the World-Word, The Mythic Mode As Symbolic Discourse (1992).pdf
State University of New York Press Sacred Geography of the Ancient Greeks, Astrological Symbolism in Art Architecture and Landscape (1994).pdf
T&T Clark Ltd. Qumran and the Origins of Johannine Language and Symbolism (2010).pdf
T&T Clark Ltd. The Development and Symbolism of Passover until 70 CE (2004).pdf
T&T Clark Ltd. The Problem of Evil and its Symbols in Jewish and Christian Tradition (2004).pdf
University of California Press An Essay on Culture, Symbolic Structure and Social Structure (1995) (no OCR).pdf
University of California Press On Symbols in Anthropology, Essays in Honor of Harry Hoijer (1982).pdf
University of California Press Symbolic Interactionism, Perspective and Method (1969).pdf
University of California Press Two-Dimensional Man, An Essay on the Anthropology of Power and Symbolism in Complex Society (1976) (no OCR).pdf
University of Chicago Press Medusa's Hair, An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience (1981) (no OCR).pdf
University of Chicago Press Symbols that Stand for Themselves (1986) (Scan, OCR).pdf
University of Hawai'i Press Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan, The Tenmu Dynasty 650-800 (2009).pdf
University of London Press Natural Symbols in South East Asia (1978).pdf
University of Nebraska Press Households and Hegemony, Early Creek Prestige Goods Symbolic Capital and Social Power (2008).pdf
University of Texas Press The Women of Karbala, Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi'i Islam (2005).pdf
Unspeakable Press The Lost Key, An Explanation and Application of the Masonic Symbols (2005).pdf
Westview Press Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols in Eastern and Western Art (1994).pdf
Westview Press Symbolism (1979).pdf
World Wisdom Inc. Foundations of Oriental Art and Symbolism (2009).pdf
World Wisdom Inc. Unveiling the Garden of Love, Mystical Symbolism in Layla Majnun and Gita Govinda (2008).pdf
Yale University Press Cassirer's Metaphysics of Symbolic Forms, A Philosophical Commentary (2001).pdf
Yale University Press The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms Vol. 2, Mythical Thought (1955).pdf