Introduction

1-6

Symbol and language

7-24

Mircea Eliade

structural hermeneutics and philosophy

Robert Mugerauer

25-37

Paul Ricoeur

the anthropological necessity of a special language

Charles E. Reagan

38-51

Myth, structure and interpretation

52-69

Toward a theoretical foundation for a correlation between literary and religious discourse

70-79

Socio-political symbolism and the transformation of consciousness

80-97