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Myt idag. : Tankar om myt, politik och kultur i vår samtid
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- Arvidsson, Stefan, 1968- (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Linnéuniversitetet,Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper, KV,Religionshistoria
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- Museum Tusculanum Press, 2012
- 2012
- Swedish.
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In: Chaos. - : Museum Tusculanum Press. - 0108-4453 .- 1901-9106. ; 53
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- The conditions for the creation, distribution and reception of myths have changed drastically during the late modern era. Do myths exist at all in the contemporary, Western societies? If so, where are they and what do we then mean by “myth”? The article is a sketchy overview of different areas where myths might be found, and the author simultaneous tries to discuss relevant definitions of myth. From the conceptualization of myth in the Enlightenment and Romantic era the article moves on to discuss the reception of mythology in New Age spirituality, the invention of Nationalist mythologies and the issue of myths in the products of the Culture industry and commerce. The main focus is on the debatable issue wither or not the liberal, “post-politic” discourse of contemporary Westerns democracies – a discourse often presented as drained of any fantastic rhetoric and only concerned with practical, instrumental decisions – could be said to contain myths.
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Religionsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- Religious Studies (hsv//eng)
- HUMANIORA -- Filosofi, etik och religion -- Religionshistoria (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Philosophy, Ethics and Religion -- History of Religions (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- myt mytologi modernitet
- Religionsvetenskap
- Study of Religions
- History of Religion
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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