Explaining, interpreting, and theorizing religion and myth: contributions in honor of Robert A. Segal

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:...

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Collaborateurs: Roubekas, Nickolas P. 1979- (Éditeur intellectuel) ; Ryba, Thomas 1953- (Éditeur intellectuel) ; Segal, Robert Alan 1948- (Personne honorée)
Type de support: Électronique Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Leiden Boston Brill [2020]
Dans:Année: 2020
Collection/Revue:Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion volume 16
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419094
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Mythe / Religion / Philosophie des religions
Sujets non-standardisés:B Segal, Robert Alan 1948-
B Religion Philosophy
B Publication commémorative
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Résumé: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.
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
ISBN:9004435026
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025