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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 A. Segal, they discuss how to theorize about religion and myth from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. With cases from ancient Greece and Mesopotamia to East Asia and the modern world by and large, and engaging with diverse disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, anthropology, history, film, theology, and religious studies among others, the volume establishes a synthesis that demonstrates the pervasiveness as well as the pitfalls of the categories “religion” and “myth” in the world.

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Author:   Nickolas P. Roubekas ,  Thomas Ryba
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   16
Weight:   0.727kg
ISBN:  

9789004435018

ISBN 10:   9004435018
Pages:   394
Publication Date:   16 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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

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"Nickolas P. Roubekas, Ph.D. (Aristotle University, 2011), is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Vienna. He specializes in theories of religion and the Graeco-Roman world and has more recently edited Theorizing ""Religion"" in Antiquity (Equinox, 2019). Thomas Ryba, Ph.D. (Northwestern University, 1986), is Notre Dame Theologian for the Aquinas Educational Foundation/Purdue and Senior Lecturer and Director of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Purdue University. He has published numerous books and articles on religion, theology, and related subjects. Contributors are: Douglas Allen, Fiona Bowie, Dexter E. Callender, Jr., Laura Feldt, Jos� Manuel Losada, William Hansen, Raya A. Jones, Roderick Main, Jon Mills, Henry Munson, Angus Nicholls, Daniel L. Pals, Lukas Pokorny, Bryan S. Rennie, Ivan Strenski, Steven F. Walker, Eric Ziolkowski, Nickolas P. Roubekas, Thomas Ryba."

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