Cyril Levitt (Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin) is professor and a past chair in the Department of Sociology at McMaster University in Canada. A fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he has been a visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.Sabine Sander (Ph.D., Leipzig University; Habilitation, University of Coblenz-Landau) is an academic research associate and former visiting professor at McMaster University. She is the editor of Language as Bridge and Border (2015), and the author of Dialogische Verantwortung (2017), as well as of numerous articles in journals and books.

• Foreword by Mayán Cervantes – Editors’ Preface by Cyril Levitt and Sabine Sander – Editors’ Introduction by Cyril Levitt and Sabine Sander – Preface – Introduction: Rebels as Demons in Ancient Chinese Myths – Myth in Classical Antiquity – Myth in the Renaissance and Enlightenment – Myth in the Nineteenth Century – Bachofen, Tylor, Müller, Frazer: Introduction to Part II. Modern Studies of Myth – Durkheim and His School. Alcheringa, or Dreamtime – Myth as the Myth of Others – The Force of Myth in Our Own Time – Myth of Another Time and Space – Myths of the North Pacific Peoples – Winnebago Trickster Myths. Radin, Malinowski, Kluckhohn – What Is True Myth? Pawnee Creation and Coyote Myths. Dorsey and Grinnell – Structuralists, Lévi- Strauss, Leach – Myths and Universals – The Treatment of Myth as a Code – Myth of the Law in the Book of Daniel – Esoteric and Exoteric Myth – The State as Myth and Myths of the State – Sacred and Secular Myth – Myth in the Making – Myth, the Known and the Unknown – Myth and Ideology – References – Index.