Undoing the sleights of hand : prophets and scholars - two mythic discourses

dc.contributor.authorVan den Heever, G. (Gerhard)
dc.date.accessioned2009-11-12T06:28:28Z
dc.date.available2009-11-12T06:28:28Z
dc.date.created2007
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractBy comparing the historical recalibration of the myth of the Mother of the Gods in Athens with the scholarly construction of the mysteries in nineteenth and twentieth century religio-historical scholarship, this essay argues that just as primary practitioners of religious discourse engage in religious mythmaking, so too do scholars of religion. Both the practice of religion and scholarship on religion subsist in the political domain of social discourse and mythmaking. However, the two kinds of mythmaking are not simply identical. It is the distance to the discourse afforded the scholar that enables scholarship as politically committed denaturalisation, or historicisation, of religious tradition and reflexive scholarship.en
dc.description.urihttp://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1001341en_US
dc.identifier.citationVan den Heever, G 2007. 'Undoing the sleights of hand : Prophets and scholars - two mythic discourses', HTS Teologiese Studies/ Theological Studies, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 937-964. [http://www.hts.org.za/index.php/HTS/issue/archive]en
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/11830
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFaculty of Theology, University of Pretoriaen_US
dc.rightsFaculty of Theology, University of Pretoriaen_US
dc.subject.lcshReligion -- Historyen
dc.subject.lcshMythologistsen
dc.subject.lcshBiblical scholarsen
dc.subject.lcshMyth in the Bibleen
dc.subject.lcshMythologyen
dc.subject.lcshReligion and politicsen
dc.subject.lcshReligion and sociologyen
dc.titleUndoing the sleights of hand : prophets and scholars - two mythic discoursesen
dc.typeArticleen

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