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Week 5 Study

Week 5 Study

Q 1. Discuss the relationship between myth and science. What are the three main ways in which the relationship between myth and science have been understood? 2. What does it mean to say that myth manifests the unconscious? What is the difference between Freudian and Jungian approaches to myth, in this respect? 3. According to Bultmann, what does it mean to “demythologize myth”? What does myth describe once it is demythologized? 4. Discuss the relationship between myth and ritual. In what sense can it be said that myth and ritual are inseparable, and why? 5. Outline and discuss the five main contemporary theories of ritual. What are the main features of each, and how does each understand the function of myth? 6. What does it mean to say that “scripture” is a relational term? How does the authority of scripture tie into its relationship to communities? 7. What is the relationship between scripture and tradition? How does the interpretation of scripture allow communities to confront change and novelty? 8. What is hermeneutics? Why is hermeneutics deemed a necessary enterprise of reading and understanding texts? 9. What is a hermeneutics of suspicion? What role does it serve in the study of religious texts? 10. What is the hermeneutical circle? What does it imply about our ability to be absolutely objective or unbiased when reading texts, religious or otherwise?

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Myth emphasizes how god controls the factors and physical elements of the world. Myth has falsehood connotation and could be erroneously differentiated from science. However, there are scientific elements in myth, which can be separated. One example is the Noah’s ark in which it was not clear whether he gathered all the world’s creatures but it was evident that flood did occur at the point. Science comes into myth as people attempt to narrate their scientific experience. The relationship between myth and science can be explored in three ways: myth as true science, myth as modern science, and my as primitive science. Myth as true science looks at how the concepts of myth have connotation of scientific evidence.