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Myth and the Christian nation [electronic resource] : a social theory of religion / Burton L. Mack.

By: Series: Religion in culturePublication details: London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox Pub., 2008.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 292 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781845537678
  • 184553767X
  • 9781317490586
  • 1317490584
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Myth and the Christian nation.DDC classification:
  • 306.6/3 22
LOC classification:
  • BL60 .M275 2008
Other classification:
  • 11.05
Online resources:
Contents:
The religions of other peoples. Looking for religion in the new world ; Noticing the social interests in myths and rituals ; Watching myths in the making ; Thinking with myths about culture ; The religion of Christianity. Early Christian mythmaking ; The social formation of christendom ; The state of the Christian nation ; Religions in a polycultural world.
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Summary: This is a book on a social theory of religion and culture. A survey of the meanings of the term religion from Columbus to Jonathan Z. Smith sets the pace. Examples are taken from ethnography, the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman age, and Christendom in order to develop the concepts of "imagined world," "social formation," "mythic grammar," and "cultural mentality." What has been learned from the study of other peoples and their religions about the function of myths and rituals is then applied to an analysis of the Christian myth-ritual system and its social logic. The odd combinations of myt.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-283 and index.

The religions of other peoples. Looking for religion in the new world ; Noticing the social interests in myths and rituals ; Watching myths in the making ; Thinking with myths about culture ; The religion of Christianity. Early Christian mythmaking ; The social formation of christendom ; The state of the Christian nation ; Religions in a polycultural world.

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This is a book on a social theory of religion and culture. A survey of the meanings of the term religion from Columbus to Jonathan Z. Smith sets the pace. Examples are taken from ethnography, the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman age, and Christendom in order to develop the concepts of "imagined world," "social formation," "mythic grammar," and "cultural mentality." What has been learned from the study of other peoples and their religions about the function of myths and rituals is then applied to an analysis of the Christian myth-ritual system and its social logic. The odd combinations of myt.

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