Explaining, interpreting, and theorizing religion and myth : contributions in honor of Robert A. Segal / edited by Nickolas P. Roubekas, Thomas Ryba.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roubekas, Nickolas P. (Nickolas Panayiotis), 1979- editor.

Ryba, Thomas, 1953- editor.

Series:

Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ; 16.

Supplements to Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Myth.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2020]

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

90-04-43502-6

OCLC:

1182844150

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004435025 DOI