..". peerless... " -- The Key Reporter

..". this bookis a first. It will be a standard... Comprehensiveness as well as the clarity of theheadnotes should make it endure." -- Choice

..". so good as itstands... one should simply be happy to have it." -- The Journal of the History ofIdeas

..". an original, compendious, and highly usefulcontribution to historical and mythographical scholarship." -- The AmericanScholar

"The Rise of Modern Mythology is a voice of reason in thecontemporary maelstrom of international religious violence and American pluralism;more than any book I know, it exposes the roots of the Western appropriation ofnon-Western mythologies, from Lawrence of Arabia and Omar Khayyam to TibetanBuddhism in Hollywood and Krishna Consciousness in airports. This is a book that weneed now." -- Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of theHistory of Religions, The University of Chicago