Emnekode
REL-3001

Posisjon  17

Myte- og symbolteori

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10

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REL-3001: Myte- og symbolteori

Utfyllende informasjon

Torjer Olsen foreleser i uke 35, 36, 37 og 38

Peter Jackson foreleser i uke 39, 41, 43 og 45

Pensum
Litteratur merket med * fås kjøpt som kompendium

* Barthes, R., "Myten i dag", i Mytologier (Oslo: Gyldendal, 1991) s. 163-212 (50 sider).

* Bynum, C.W., "Introduction: The complexity of symbols", i C.W. Bynum, S. Harrel and P. Richman, Gender and Religion: On the complexity of symbols (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986) s. 1-20 (21 sider).

* Bynum, C.W., ”...And woman his humanity: female imagery in the religious writing of the later Middle ages, i C.W. Bynum, S. Harrel and P. Richman, Gender and Religion: On the complexity of symbols (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986) s. 151-179 (29 sider).

*Douglas, M., "The abominations of Leviticus", i W.A. Lessa og E.Z. Vogt (eds.), Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach (New York: Harper and Row, 1979) s.149–152 (4 sider).

* Geertz, C., "Religion as a cultural system", i C. Geertz, The interpretation of cultures. Selected essays (Harper torchbooks, 5043; New York: Basic Books, 1973) s. 87-125 (39 sider).

* Illman, R. og Leppäkari, M., ”Att analysera symboler”, i L. Marander Nielsen m.fl. (red.), Metodkompassen - kulturvetarens metodbok (Åbo akademi, 2004), s. 273-294) (20 s).

* Lévi-Strauss, C. ”The Structural Study of Myth” i Structural Anthropology vol.1 (Penguin, London: 1963), s.206-231.

Lincoln, B., Theorizing myth. Narrative ideology and scholarship (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999) (200 sider)

* MacQueen, G., “Whose Sacred History? Reflections on Myth and Dominance,” i Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 17 (1988) s. 143-157 (15 sider).

* McCutcheon, R.T., "Myth", i W. Braun og R.T. McCutcheon (eds.), Guide to the study of religion (London and New York: Cassell, 2000) s. 190-209 (20 sider).

* Ortner, S.B., "On Key Symbols", i W.A. Lessa og E.Z. Vogt (eds.), Reader in Comparative Religion: An Anthropological Approach (New York: Harper and Row, 1979) s. 92-98 (7 sider).

Schrempp, G och Hansen (red.), W, Myth: A New symposium, Indiana University Press, 2002 (ca 150-200 s)

Sperber, Dan, Rethinking symbolism, s.17-50, (Cambridge University Press, 1974).

* Turner, V., "Betwixt and between: The liminal period in rites de passage", i V. Turner, The Forest of symbols (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982) s.93-111 (19 sider).

* Turner, V., "Symbols in Ndembu ritual", i V. Turner, The Forest of Symbols (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982) s. 19-47 (28 sider).

Whitehead, A. N., Symbolism: its meaning and effect, 88 s.