Fabricating founders in early modern England: history, rhetoric, and the origins of Christianity
"In Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England, Lauren Horn Griffin argues that in order to understand nationalisms, we need a clearer understanding of the types of cultural myths, symbols, and traditions that legitimate them. Myths of origin and election, memories of a greater and purer past...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2023]
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| In: | Year: 2023 |
| Series/Journal: | Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion
volume 22 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
England
/ Founding
/ Female saint
/ Reception
/ History 1500-1800
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| Further subjects: | B
Historiography
B Christianity and culture (England) History 16th century B Church History 16th century B Religion Study and teaching B Religion Methodology B England Church history 16th century B Fathers of the church History and criticism B Fathers of the church Influence B Catholic Church Doctrines History 16th century B Christianity Origin B Religious Thought (England) 16th century |
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| Summary: | "In Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England, Lauren Horn Griffin argues that in order to understand nationalisms, we need a clearer understanding of the types of cultural myths, symbols, and traditions that legitimate them. Myths of origin and election, memories of a greater and purer past, and narratives of persecution and mission are required for the production and maintenance of powerful national sentiments. Through an investigation of how early modern Catholics and Protestants reimagined, reinterpreted, and rewrote the lives of the founder-saints who spread Christianity in England, this book offers a theoretical framework for the study of origin narratives. Analyzing the discursive construction of time and place, the invocation of forces beyond the human to naturalize and authorize, and the role of visual and ritual culture in fabrications of the past, this book provides a case study for how to approach claims about founding figures. Serving as a timely example of the dependence of national identity on key cultural resources, Griffin shows how origin narratives - particularly the founding figures that anchor them - function as uniquely powerful rhetorical tools for the cultural production of regional and national identity."-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004514368 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004514362 |