Colin Grant

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Myths We Live By University of Ottawa Press	Colin Grant challenges the popular use of "myth" as a dismissive designation of the superstitions and falsehoods of "other" cultures. The author maintains that myths occupy a …	Colin Grant	195	1998	View
From The Meaning of Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	To appreciate myth in this comprehensive and engaging sense, we have to get away from the popular equation of myth with falsehood, and we must distinguish the personal sense of myth from the …	Colin Grant	17	1998	$2.21 Add
From A Science Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	Science itself may now be somewhat facing this problematic fate because of the ecologically destructive side effects of technological processes.	Colin Grant	28	1998	$3.64 Add
From A Sports Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	Insofar as sport operates with these mythic perspectives, providing a way of orienting ourselves in time and even offering hints of eternity, it clearly functions with mythic overtones of …	Colin Grant	20	1998	$2.60 Add
From A Consumer Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	The consumer myth is not about materialism,- it is about spiritual reality. It represents the most sustained attempt in the history of humanity to accord total spiritual significance to material …	Colin Grant	16	1998	$2.08 Add
From A Values Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	Talk of values may be a way of fooling ourselves into thinking we are dealing with something substantial when there is really no substance at all except whatever we choose to inject.	Colin Grant	13	1998	$1.69 Add
From An Ecology Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	In posing issues of life and death in a particularly dramatic way, the ecology crisis may be posing the issue of our fundamental mythic allegiance today more forcefully than does any other area.	Colin Grant	17	1998	$2.21 Add
From A Sex Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	When the topic of sex is raised in terms of the question of basic visions that are at stake in myth, a specific dimension of the sexual revolution appears even more prominent than issues of …	Colin Grant	17	1998	$2.21 Add
From A Society Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	The basic comprehensive reality we refer to in our discussions, the horizon of meaning that we take for granted, as our ancestors took the reality of God for granted, is society.	Colin Grant	15	1998	$1.95 Add
From A Religion Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	What we have seen is that not only do we live by myth, but these mythic commitments become most evident when they take on religious proportions. Every living myth we have considered ends up …	Colin Grant	13	1998	$1.69 Add
From Meaningful Myth From: Myths We Live By View University of Ottawa Press	There are indications of an increasing recognition of our self-conscious involvement in myth in the sense of basic perspectives and priorities that shape life for us. But this living sense of …	Colin Grant	10	1998	$1.30 Add