Remember the Land
In a provocative section entitled "A Reading of Origins: Myth, Truth, and Power" in Chapter 1 of Formations of the Secular, Talal Asad cites European Enlightenment attitudes toward mythology: But as Jean Starobinski reminds us, myth was more than a decorative language or a satirical one fo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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Religion and society
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 129-132 |
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| Summary: | In a provocative section entitled "A Reading of Origins: Myth, Truth, and Power" in Chapter 1 of Formations of the Secular, Talal Asad cites European Enlightenment attitudes toward mythology: But as Jean Starobinski reminds us, myth was more than a decorative language or a satirical one for taking a distance from the heroic as a social idea. In the great tragedies and operas of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, myths provided the material through which the psychology of the human passions could be explored. (2003: 29) |
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| ISSN: | 2150-9301 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2024.150111 |
