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What myth means and how myth means something can be very differently perceived and manifested, especially across religious and cultural differences. Consider the following conversation that was part of a colonial encounter in Bali. Each person in the conversation manifests particular assumptions about the connection between mythological narrative and the ways in which it expresses truth, history, and invention:
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Grau, M. (2014). Reframing Mythos and Logos: Theology as Mytho-Logy. In: Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137324559_7
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