Theorizing Religion in Antiquity - Nickolas P. Roubekas
20. Epilogue: The Jabberwocky Dilemma - Take Religion for Example
Theorizing Religion in Antiquity - Nickolas P. Roubekas
Luther H. Martin [+]
University of Vermont
Luther H. Martin is Professor Emeritus of Religion, University of Vermont. He also has been a Distinguished International Fellow at the Institute of Cognition and Culture, Queen’s University Belfast, and a Visiting Professor at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He is the author of Hellenistic Religions (1987) and of numerous articles in this field of his historical specialization. He has also published widely in the field of theory and method in the study of religion, especially, in the area of cognitive theory and historiographical method, and has coedited several volumes in this area, including Past Minds: Studies in Cognitive Historiography (2011). He is a founding member of the International Association for the Cognitive Science of Religion and is co-editor of its Journal of the Cognitive Science of Religion.
Description
An exponent of the social scientific study of religion, Martin discusses not only the contents of the chapters of this volume, but also offers ideas and other theoretical suggestions for ‘moving forward’ in the important field of ‘ancient religions.’