An intensive study of popular, scholarly, and critical conceptions of myth and mythmaking. Three approaches to myth will be examined: myth as universal estate of humanity, myth as object of scientific discourse, and myth as ideology in narrative form. Throughout, students will be encouraged to think about scholars studying myth as mythmakers themselves, thus opening the field to a more critical appraisal of the entwinement of narrative, ideology, and scholarship. Students may not hold credit for both RLGN 3102 and the former RLGN 3110 [3 credits]
An intensive study of popular, scholarly, and critical conceptions of myth and mythmaking. Three approaches to myth will be examined: myth as universal estate of humanity, myth as object of scientific discourse, and myth as ideology in narrative form. Throughout, students will be encouraged to think about scholars studying myth as mythmakers themselves, thus opening the field to a more critical appraisal of the entwinement of narrative, ideology, and scholarship. Students may not hold credit for both RLGN 3102 and the former RLGN 3110 [3 credits]
