- Title : Myth and Method (Studies in Religion and Culture)
- Author : Brand: University of Virginia Press
- Rating : 4.76 (713 Vote)
- Publish : 2015-4-12
- Format : Paperback
- Pages : 416 Pages
- Asin : 0813916577
- Language : English
The volume strives for a balance between two centrifugal forces in academic discourse: the exclusive focus on method and an exclusive focus on area studies, addressing their strengths without aligning itself to the provincialism of either. From the Back Cover 'Myth and Method is a significant contribution to the study of religion, culture, method, and comparison, s
The volume strives for a balance between two centrifugal forces in academic discourse: the exclusive focus on method and an exclusive focus on area studies, addressing their strengths without aligning itself to the provincialism of either. From the Back Cover 'Myth and Method is a significant contribution to the study of religion, culture, method, and comparison, summarizing, with fairness, the crisis in the study of mythology that has developed in the last ten years.Patton is Assistant Professor of Early Indian Religions at Emory University. She is the author of several books on Indian mythology and the comparative study of mythology, including The Origin of Evil in Hindu Mythology; Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities; and Other Peoples' Myths.
. In addition to journal articles on the topics of early Indian religions, comparative mythology, and theory in the study of religion, she is the author of Myth as Argument: The Mrhaddevata as Canonical Commentary. Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago.Laurie L
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