P. Roubekas, Nickolas. <br/><br/>
Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth :  Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (405 pages) 
 - Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion Series ;  v.16 .
 - Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789004435025 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Myth.<br/>Religion-Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.