Theorizing Myth : Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Scholarship
Review: The book is simply more than what many of the reviewers have stated. It is multi-faceted in its approach and the epitome of acadmemic scholarship. Lincoln works with a dozen languages and takes on the masters and mentors of his own field: The History of Religions. He deconstructs their mythology and interrogates a century of German nationalist thought--the basis of which became the foundation for the ideologies of anti-semitism. Additionally, Lincoln's efforts here have given me a renewed faith in historical methodology, illustrating by example that "showing your work" via the footnote and a careful reading of the primary and secondary material, that one can truly challenge those mythologies that continue to subvert our own imaginaries. This is History at its finest!

Rating:
Summary: Brilliance
Review: The book is simply more than what many of the reviewers have stated. It is multi-faceted in its approach and the epitome of acadmemic scholarship. Lincoln works with a dozen languages and takes on the masters and mentors of his own field: The History of Religions. He deconstructs their mythology and interrogates a century of German nationalist thought--the basis of which became the foundation for the ideologies of anti-semitism. Additionally, Lincoln's efforts here have given me a renewed faith in historical methodology, illustrating by example that "showing your work" via the footnote and a careful reading of the primary and secondary material, that one can truly challenge those mythologies that continue to subvert our own imaginaries. This is History at its finest!