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?