Symbolic Loss, Memory, and Modernization in the Reception of Gnosticism
نام عام مواد
[Article]
نام نخستين پديدآور
Matthew J. Dillon
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
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.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2016
توصيف ظاهري
276-309
عنوان
Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies
شماره جلد
1/1-2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
2451-859X
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اصطلاح موضوعی
Biblical Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Cultural Memory
اصطلاح موضوعی
Gnosticism & Manichaeism
اصطلاح موضوعی
Jesus
اصطلاح موضوعی
Modernization
اصطلاح موضوعی
Nag Hammadi Library
اصطلاح موضوعی
Psychoanalysis
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