Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth : Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal /

Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth : Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal /

In Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal , nineteen renowned scholars offer a collection of essays addressing the persisting question of how to approach religion and myth as academic categories. Taking their cue from the work of Robert...

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Other Authors: Roubekas, Nickolas P. (Editor), Ryba, Thomas (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ; 16.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419094.

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Religion > Philosophy.

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Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Editors' Acknowledgments
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Toward a Segalian Religiology Thomas Ryba Debating Religion
  • 1 Reductionism in Retrospect: Assessing Robert Segal's "In Defense of Reductionism" (1983) Almost Four Decades On Daniel L. Pals
  • 2 Understanding Religion: Interpretation and Explanation Douglas Allen
  • 3 Robert Segal: Philosopher of Religion, or: Ye'll huvtae furgi'e oor Robert. He disnae ken his ane strength Bryan S. Rennie History, Theory, and Religion
  • 4 Presocratic Theories of Religion Nickolas P. Roubekas
  • 5 An Episode in the History of the "Science of Religion": C. P. Tiele's Indecisive Scientific Practice Ivan Strenski
  • 6 Many-Titled One; Elephant and Blind Men; Hand and Fingers: Classic Metaphors of Religious Pluralism Eric Ziolkowski Reapproaching Religion
  • 7 Re-visioning Religious Archetypes: Cognitive Schemas and Material Anchors in Biblical Criticism Dexter E. Callender, Jr.
  • 8 The Permeable Boundary between Christian Anti-Judaism and Secular Antisemitism Henry L. Munson, Jr.
  • 9 Experience and Ontology in the Study of Religion Fiona Bowie Debating Myth
  • 10 Theory of Myth versus Meta-Theory of Myth: on the Political Implications of a Late Twentieth-Century Distinction Angus Nicholls
  • 11 Deconstructing Myth Jon Mills
  • 12 Myth, Synchronicity, and the Physical World Roderick Main Interrogating Myth
  • 13 Mythic Aetiologies of Loss William Hansen
  • 14 Fictioning Myths and Mythic Fictions: the Standard-Babylonian Gilgameš Epic and Questions of Heroism, Myth, and Fiction Laura Feldt
  • 15 The Millenarian Myth Ethnocentrized: the Case of East Asian New Religious Movements Lukas Pokorny Myth Revisited
  • 16 Métaphysique noire: the Dybbuk Myth and the Book of Job as Mythological Subtexts in the Coen Brothers' Film A Serious Man Steven F. Walker
  • 17 Jung's "Very Twentieth-Century" View of Mind: Implications for Theorizing about Myth Raya A. Jones
  • 18 Cultural Mythcriticism and Today's Challenges to Myth José Manuel Losada
  • Annex: Bibliography of Robert A. Segal, 1976-2019
  • Index.