التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Conjuring (divine) authority: the myth of the 'found' text |
| المؤلفون: |
Patrick, Heather |
| المساهمون: |
Marx, Heidi (Religion), Ives, Peter (Political Science), Colorado, Carlos (Religion) |
| سنة النشر: |
2018 |
| المجموعة: |
MSpace at the University of Manitoba |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
Comparative mythology, Aelius Aristides, Margaret Atwood, Constructing authority, Book of the law, Timaeus, Recovered documents, Social memory theory, History of religion, Method and theory in the study of religion, Fabrication and forgery, Invented religions |
| الوصف: |
In this study, I classify and examine a literary device that I term ‘the myth of the found text’ so as to explore how such stories operate to authorize and reinforce, especially religious, authority. Here I contend that individuals or groups in specific socio-historical contexts construct stories of found texts as a kind of conjuring trick, one that functions to confer the storyteller’s power and stature. By appealing to the authority of an ancient text allegedly newly recovered, these mythmakers are able to situate social programs and religious reforms in an imagined, ideal antiquity—an exemplary past. The creation and telling of such myths can thus be seen as a political manoeuvre, a manoeuvre that constructs an authority (the ‘found’ text) that is then cleverly protected from contestation. While we may be quick to impugn such strategies, they have much in common, I argue, with ‘religion’ and with scholarship itself. ; October 2018 |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
master thesis |
| وصف الملف: |
application/pdf |
| اللغة: |
English |
| العلاقة: |
http://hdl.handle.net/1993/33411Test |
| الإتاحة: |
http://hdl.handle.net/1993/33411Test |
| حقوق: |
open access |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.F5B2E14 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
