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  • Myth

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Segal ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Myth: A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert A. Segal ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions;Very Short Introductions
    This book is not about myths, but about approaches to myth, from all of the major disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology. The fate of the preternaturally beautiful Adonis is one of the main fables upon which Segal focuses, in an attempt to analyse the various different theories of myth. Where the theory does not work, he substitutes another myth, showing ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Myth

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Segal ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean? In this Very Short Introduction Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Religion of the Semites

    The Fundamental Institutions

    by Robert A. Segal ...
    Scottish Semiticist and Arabist William Robertson Smith was a celebrated biblical critic, theorist of religion, and theorist of myth. His accomplishments were multiple. Smith's German mentors reconstructed the history of Israelite religion from the Bible itself; Smith ventured outside the Bible to Semitic religion and thereby pioneered the comparative study of religion. Where others viewed ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Myth Analyzed

    by Robert A. Segal ...
    Series series Theorists of Myth
    Comparing and evaluating modern theories of myth, this book offers an overview of explanations of myth from the social sciences and the humanities.This ambitious collection of essays uses the viewpoints of a variety of disciplines - psychology, anthropology, sociology, politics, philosophy, religious studies, and literature. Each discipline advocates a generalization about the origin, the function ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Myth

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert A. Segal ...
    Narrated by Ben Esner ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 31 min

    Where do myths come from? What is their function and what do they mean?In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. These approaches hail from disciplines as varied as anthropology, sociology, psychology, literary criticism, philosophy, science, and religious studies. Including ideas from theorists as varied as Sigmund Freud ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Fallen Animals

    Art, Religion, Literature

    by Brian Brock, Constantin Canavas, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Kate Walters, Kirsty Stewart, Penny Florence, Rachel Stenner, Eric Ziolkowski, Dr Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer, Robert A. Segal ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    The premise of Fallen Animals is that some how and in some way The Fall of Adam and Eve as related in the Bible has affected all living beings from the largest to the smallest, from the oldest to the youngest, regardless of gender and geography. The movement from the blissful arena of the Garden of Eden to the uncertain reality of exile altered in an overt or nuanced fashion the attitudes, ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Study of Religion

    Edited by Robert A. Segal, Nickolas P. Roubekas ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
    Praise for the previous edition:“This volume, expertly edited and introduced by Segal, collects a series of essays that combine clarity and accessibility with nuance and balance … and are uniformly of high quality, each with a helpful bibliography that supplements the volume bibliography… This work will command a wide audience, ranging from the general public to religious studies specialists. ... Read more

    Was $208.99 CAD Now $58.99 CAD

  • Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Myth

    Volume III

    Edited by Robert A. Segal ...
    Series series Theorists of Myth
    Much of the theorizing about myth in philosophy and religious studies grows out of efforts to understand the classics and the Bible. In the case of the classics, the presence of myth has been taken for granted, and conclusions reached about Greek and Roman mythology have spurred generalizations about myth. In the case of the Bible, however, the existence of myth has been contested. In fact, ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • Brand Enforcement

    Stop Unauthorized & Counterfeit Sales on Amazon and Other Platforms

    by Sean Banahan, CJ Rosenbaum, Robert Segall ...
    Unauthorized Sellers Harm Your BrandEvery day on Amazon and across every major online marketplace, unauthorized sellers quietly erode the brands' reputations and harm the consumers' experiences.Unauthorized sellers break your pricing strategy and MAP, and damage brand reputations with counterfeit, gray market, and mishandled inventory. Unauthorized sellers frustrate authorized resellers who play ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Jung on Mythology

    by C. G. Jung ...
    Series series Encountering Jung
    At least three major questions can be asked of myth: what is its subject matter? what is its origin? and what is its function? Theories of myth may differ on the answers they give to any of these questions, but more basically they may also differ on which of the questions they ask. C. G. Jung's theory is one of the few that purports to answer fully all three questions. This volume collects and ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • The Gnostic Jung

    Including

    by C.G. Jung ...
    Gnosticism was for C.G. jung the chief prefiguration of his analytical psychology. In this volume Robert Segal, an authority on theories of myth and Gnosticism, has searched the Jungian corpus for Jung's main discussions of this ancient form of spirituality. The progression in Gnosticism from sheer bodily existence to the release of the immaterial spark imprisoned in the body - and the reunion of ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD