Irreverence and the sacred : critical studies in the history of religions

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Figures = vii
• Preface and Acknowledgments = ix
• List of Contributors = xi
• Introduction : Destabilizing the Sacred : A Critical History of Religions / Hugh B. Urban ; Greg Johnson = 1
• PART Ⅰ Myth and Narrative
• 1 (Mythical) Battles in Medieval Scandinavia : Battle Narratives and the Construction of Society / Nicolas Meylan = 17
• 2 Moscow, Third Rome, and the Uses of Ressentiment : An Essay in Myth Criticism / Ivan Strenski = 42
• 3 How the Arthashastra and the Kamasutra Got Away with Their Critiques of Dharma / Wendy Doniger = 61
• 4 Authority Apart from Truth : Superhero Comic Book Stories as Myths / Kevin J. Wanner = 81
• 5 Myths and Utopias, Critics and Caretakers : In Defense of Revisionist History / Stefan Arvidsson = 103
• PART Ⅱ Ritual and Practice
• 6 Ritual, Advocacy, and Authority : The Challenge of Being an Irreverent Witness / Greg Johnson = 131
• 7 Death, Nationalism, and Sacrifice : Ritual, Violence, Politics, and Tourism in Northeast India / Hugh B. Urban = 156
• 8 Becoming Zarathustra / Jean Kellens = 185
• PART Ⅲ Gender and Sexuality
• 9 Where Men Are Knights and Women Are Princesses : Gender Ideology in Brazil's Valley of the Dawn / Kellye Hayes = 197
• 10 Straightening Out the Gods' Gender / Kathleen Self = 227
• 11 Norn, Vampire, Female Christ : Myth and Myth-Making in Sweden's First Feminist Novel (A Failed Essay) / Stefanie Von Schnurbein = 245
• PART Ⅳ Power, Politics, and the Politics of Scholarship
• 12 Historicizing the Elephant in the Room / Russell T. Mccutcheon = 267
• 13 What Is Religion? Between Christianocentric Paradigm and Anthropological Relativism / Claude Calame = 286
• 14 Rereading Charlie Hebdo : Of Irreverence and Laicite / S. Romi Mukherjee = 304
• Afterword : An Interview with Bruce Lincoln on Religion, Comparison, and the Politics of Scholarship = 313
• Index = 333