عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
LA110841
LANGUAGE OF THE ITEM
.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc
انگلیسی
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Symbolic Loss, Memory, and Modernization in the Reception of Gnosticism
General Material Designation
[Article]
First Statement of Responsibility
Matthew J. Dillon
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Leiden
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Social scientist of religion Peter Homans has demonstrated that symbolic loss, cultural memory, and modernization are tightly intertwined. As a consequence of modernization, Western culture has lost a shared relationship to the symbols of its Christian past, leading to religious mourning. This article demonstrates that the category gnosticism opened up an imaginative possibility for individuals to reinterpret the cultural memory of the Christian past and achieve rapprochement with the tradition. The argument proceeds through case studies of psychologist Carl Jung, visionary artist Laurence Caruana, and public speaker Jonathan Talat Phillips. Each case exhibits how symbolic loss of the Christian tradition throws the individual into a period of inner turmoil. When each of them read ancient gnostic texts, they do so to reinterpret the symbols of Christianity, specifically Christ, in ways that respond to forces of modernization. The article concludes that popular and religious interpretations of the ancient gnostics should be recognized as attempts by those who lost Christianity in the West to re-envision its cultural memory and reimagine Christianity in the present.
SET
Date of Publication
2016
Physical description
276-309
Title
Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
Volume Number
1/1-2
International Standard Serial Number
2451-859X
UNCONTROLLED SUBJECT TERMS
Subject Term
Biblical Studies
Subject Term
Cultural Memory
Subject Term
Gnosticism & Manichaeism
Subject Term
Jesus
Subject Term
Modernization
Subject Term
Nag Hammadi Library
Subject Term
Psychoanalysis
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Matthew J. Dillon
LOCATION AND CALL NUMBER
Call Number
10.1163/2451859X-12340015
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Electronic name
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[Article]
275578
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