TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mack,Burton L.
TI  - Myth and the Christian nation: a social theory of religion 
T2  - Religion in culture
SN  - 9781845537678
AV  - BL60 .M275 2008
U1  - 306.6/3 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London, Oakville, CT
PB  - Equinox Pub.
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Religion
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - fast
KW  - Godsdiensten
KW  - gtt
KW  - Maatschappij
KW  - Christendom
KW  - Mythos
KW  - swd
KW  - Ethnosoziologie
KW  - Christentum
KW  - Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
KW  - Soziologie
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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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