East-European Critical Thought: Myth, Religion, and Magic versus Literature, Sign and Narrative

Abstract

The Introductory article offers a general overview of the highly complicated topic of religious and mythological consciousness discussed in sub-species narrative critique and literary theory. It also provides a detailed context for the wide array of religious matters discussed in this special volume of Religions. Each of the nineteen papers is positioned within its own particular thematic discourse.

Keywords

• Russian Paganism
• mythology
• theory
• narrative
• semiotics & semiosis