Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth
Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal
Published on 16. July 2020
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Hardback
408 pages
978-90-04-43501-8 (ISBN)
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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.
Contributors are: Douglas Allen, Fiona Bowie, Dexter E. Callender, Jr., Laura Feldt, Jose 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.
Contributors are: Douglas Allen, Fiona Bowie, Dexter E. Callender, Jr., Laura Feldt, Jose 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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Language
English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
727 gr
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978-90-04-43501-8 (9789004435018)
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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, José 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.
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, José 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.
Content
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 Gilgames 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 Metaphysique 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
Jose Manuel Losada
Annex: Bibliography of Robert A. Segal, 1976-2019
Index
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 Gilgames 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 Metaphysique 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
Jose Manuel Losada
Annex: Bibliography of Robert A. Segal, 1976-2019
Index