The reinvention of myth: implications for the studies in history of religion and religiosity

Religiosity is in the matrix of human existence. How to analyze scientifically what is the product of subjectivity or pure abstraction? The historian's work is to analyze the "rules of social runs" contained in religious practices. My particular interest here lay on the myths: what are they? What kind of practices they engender or social functioning rules they help to manage? What common beliefs revolve around the myth? How is its acceptance or rejection in the contemporary world? These are some of the questions that this paper aims to examine in order to give some analysis parameters for a history of religions and religiosity.