In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of ReligionUniversity of Chicago Press, 1993 - Всего страниц: 223 In this pioneering work of discourse analysis, Tomoko Masuzawa observes that the modern study of religion is peculiarly ambivalent toward the question of origin. Today's historians of religion maintain that they have abandoned speculative quests for the origin of religion; at the same time, they allege that concepts of absolute beginnings are fundamental to religion itself. By renouncing the desire for origins that they claim religious peoples embrace, historians can vicariously participate in the forbidden quest—so it seems—without forfeiting the authority accruing from their objectivist position. This ambivalence of contemporary scholars echoes their ambivalence toward the ancestral "giants" of the discipline: Durkheim, Müller, and Freud. Masuzawa shows that the speculations of these three men on the origins of religion render the very notion of time and history problematic and contain powerful instruments for dislodging the position of "Western man" as the keeper of knowledge. Her critical rereading of these forefathers is framed by a compelling discussion of the postmodernist subversion of absolute origins in the works of Walter Benjamin and Rosalind Krauss and a comparison of Mircea Eliade and Nancy Munn's accounts of the Australian aboriginal "dreamtime." Engaging a number of critical issues within the burgeoning field of cultural studies, Masuzawa's book will have far-reaching implications not only for religious studies but throughout the human sciences. |
Другие издания - Просмотреть все
In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion Tomoko Masuzawa Ограниченный просмотр - 1993 |
Часто встречающиеся слова и выражения
anal analogy analysis ancestral archaic Australian beginning called castration chapter child childhood consciousness context course critical cult desire difference doubt dreamtime Durkheim effect Eliade Émile Durkheim essay fact fantasy father Freud Friedrich Max Müller genital Grusha hand hermeneutics human idea infantile sexuality interdictions Jacob Bernays Jung language libido matter Max Müller means memory ment metapsychology Mircea Eliade Munn myth mythic mythology narration narrative nature neurotic non liquet notion object obsessional neurosis once origin of religion perhaps phantasy philological postmodern prehistoric primal scene primitive profane psychical psycho psychoanalysis question reader reality relation religious repetition representation repression Rig Veda ritual sacred sacred-profane Sándor Ferenczi scholars seems sense Sigmund Freud significance society story structure study of religion temporality theory thesis things thought threat of castration tion Totem and Taboo trans turn ultimately unconscious University Walbiri wolf dream Wolf-Man words
Ссылки на эту книгу
The Invention of World Religions: Or, How European Universalism Was ... Tomoko Masuzawa Недоступно для просмотра - 2005 |
Religion and the Domestication of Dissent, Or, How to Live in a Less Than ... Russell T. McCutcheon Недоступно для просмотра - 2005 |