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[Not available online] Theory of Myth versus Meta-theory of Myth: On the Political Implications of a Late Twentieth-Century Distinction 神话理论与神话元理论:论二十世纪后期差异的政治含义

Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_012

Angus Nicholls

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Understanding Religion: Interpretation and Explanation 理解宗教:诠释与解释

Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_004

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The Millenarian Myth Ethnocentrized: The Case of East Asian New Religious Movements 民族中心化的千年神话:以东亚新兴宗教运动为例

Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_017

R. Segal

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The Permeable Boundary between Christian Anti-Judaism and Secular Antisemitism 基督教反犹太教与世俗反犹太主义之间的渗透边界

Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_010

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Myth, Synchronicity, and the Physical World 神话，同步性和物质世界

Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_014

Roderick Main

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Reductionism in Retrospect: Assessing Robert Segal’s “In Defense of Reductionism” (1983) Almost Four Decades On 回顾还原论:评价罗伯特·西格尔的《为还原论辩护》(1983)

Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth Pub Date : 2020-06-09 DOI: 10.1163/9789004435025_003

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