123 Apparently/not. They are for me. Who am I? Oh, to hell with it. I'm going to bed too. Goodnight. David Turner Department of Anthropology University of Toronto Reviews THE SOCIOLOGY OF KNOWLEDGE COMES TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History, by Ivan Strenski. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1987, viii, 234. It is easy to understand why Professor Strenski's book has been honoured with an award from the American Academy of Religion. This study of the professional and cultural contexts shaping the views of myth of Cassirer, Malinowski, Eliade, and Levi-Strauss exemplifies a "kind" of scholarship emblematic of a growing disciplinary maturity. Strenski provides scholars of religion with an able instance of disciplinary reflexivity, in a largely non-polemical mode. In seeking to understand the nature and interrelationships of theories of myth, he argues that much can be gained from examining these theories in the light of some of the larger cultural projects (what he calls the "external context") and professional debates (i.e., the "internal context") dominant in the lives of their authors. His analysis, that is, moves beyond traditional intellectual history into a form of broader sociology of knowledge. In the process he greatly enriches our understanding of each theory by attempting to answer the questions: Why did the theorist engage the subject of myth? Why did they try to engage it as they did? Specialists may choose to dispute some