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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (405 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004435025
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and MythOnline resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Editors' Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. Toward a Segalian Religiology -- Part 1: Debating Religion -- Chapter 1. Reductionism in Retrospect: Assessing Robert Segal's ``In Defense of Reductionism'' (1983) Almost Four Decades On -- Chapter 2. Understanding Religion: Interpretation and Explanation -- Chapter 3. Robert Segal: Philosopher of Religion, or: Ye'll huvtae furgi'e oor Robert. He disnae ken his ane strength -- Part 2: History, Theory, and Religion -- Chapter 4. Presocratic Theories of Religion -- Chapter 5. An Episode in the History of the ``Science of Religion'': C. P. Tiele's Indecisive Scientific Practice -- Chapter 6. Many-Titled One -- Elephant and Blind Men -- Hand and Fingers: Classic Metaphors of Religious Pluralism -- Part 3: Reapproaching Religion -- Chapter 7. Re-visioning Religious Archetypes: Cognitive Schemas and Material Anchors in Biblical Criticism -- Chapter 8. The Permeable Boundary between Christian Anti-Judaism and Secular Antisemitism -- Chapter 9. Experience and Ontology in the Study of Religion -- Part 4: Debating Myth -- Chapter 10. Theory of Myth versus Meta-theory of Myth: On the Political Implications of a Late Twentieth-Century Distinction -- Chapter 11. Deconstructing Myth -- Chapter 12. Myth, Synchronicity, and the Physical World -- Part 5: Interrogating Myth -- Chapter 13. Mythic Aetiologies of Loss -- Chapter 14. Fictioning Myths and Mythic Fictions: The Standard-Babylonian Gilgameš Epic and Questions of Heroism, Myth, and Fiction -- Chapter 15. The Millenarian Myth Ethnocentrized: The Case of East Asian New Religious Movements -- Chapter 15. -- Part 6: Myth Revisited -- Chapter 16. Métaphysique noire: The Dybbuk Myth and the Book of Job as Mythological Subtexts in the Coen Brothers' Film A Serious Man.
Chapter 17. Jung's ``Very Twentieth-Century'' View of Mind: Implications for Theorizing about Myth -- Chapter 18. Cultural Mythcriticism and Today's Challenges to Myth -- Annex. Bibliography of Robert A. Segal, 1976-2019 -- Index of Names -- General Index.
Summary: Taking its cue from Robert A. Segal's work, Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal offers a set of essays by renowned scholars addressing the persisting question of how to approach religion and myth as academic categories.
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Intro -- Contents -- Editors' Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction. Toward a Segalian Religiology -- Part 1: Debating Religion -- Chapter 1. Reductionism in Retrospect: Assessing Robert Segal's ``In Defense of Reductionism'' (1983) Almost Four Decades On -- Chapter 2. Understanding Religion: Interpretation and Explanation -- Chapter 3. Robert Segal: Philosopher of Religion, or: Ye'll huvtae furgi'e oor Robert. He disnae ken his ane strength -- Part 2: History, Theory, and Religion -- Chapter 4. Presocratic Theories of Religion -- Chapter 5. An Episode in the History of the ``Science of Religion'': C. P. Tiele's Indecisive Scientific Practice -- Chapter 6. Many-Titled One -- Elephant and Blind Men -- Hand and Fingers: Classic Metaphors of Religious Pluralism -- Part 3: Reapproaching Religion -- Chapter 7. Re-visioning Religious Archetypes: Cognitive Schemas and Material Anchors in Biblical Criticism -- Chapter 8. The Permeable Boundary between Christian Anti-Judaism and Secular Antisemitism -- Chapter 9. Experience and Ontology in the Study of Religion -- Part 4: Debating Myth -- Chapter 10. Theory of Myth versus Meta-theory of Myth: On the Political Implications of a Late Twentieth-Century Distinction -- Chapter 11. Deconstructing Myth -- Chapter 12. Myth, Synchronicity, and the Physical World -- Part 5: Interrogating Myth -- Chapter 13. Mythic Aetiologies of Loss -- Chapter 14. Fictioning Myths and Mythic Fictions: The Standard-Babylonian Gilgameš Epic and Questions of Heroism, Myth, and Fiction -- Chapter 15. The Millenarian Myth Ethnocentrized: The Case of East Asian New Religious Movements -- Chapter 15. -- Part 6: Myth Revisited -- Chapter 16. Métaphysique noire: The Dybbuk Myth and the Book of Job as Mythological Subtexts in the Coen Brothers' Film A Serious Man.

Chapter 17. Jung's ``Very Twentieth-Century'' View of Mind: Implications for Theorizing about Myth -- Chapter 18. Cultural Mythcriticism and Today's Challenges to Myth -- Annex. Bibliography of Robert A. Segal, 1976-2019 -- Index of Names -- General Index.

Taking its cue from Robert A. Segal's work, Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal offers a set of essays by renowned scholars addressing the persisting question of how to approach religion and myth as academic categories.

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