rels. 205 lecture 3.2 it’s a myth
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Rels. 205 Lecture 3.2 It’s a Myth. What do we mean by "myth"?. “It’s a myth. Santa does not exist.”. Conspiracies sometimes happen. Hans Ernst Schneider = Hans Schwerte (1909-1945) (1945-1999). Myth. “It’s a myth. Prof. Hexham didn’t win the $10,000,000 lottery. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Rels. 205 Lecture 3.2It’s a Myth
What do we mean by "myth"?
“It’s a myth. Santa does not exist.”
Conspiracies sometimes happen
Hans Ernst Schneider = Hans Schwerte(1909-1945) (1945-1999)
Myth
“It’s a myth. Prof. Hexham didn’t win the $10,000,000 lottery.
Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976)Jesus Christ and Mythology (1960)
Demythologize
Myth and MystificationMircea Eliade
(1907-1986)
Joseph Campbell (1904-1987 )
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)
Richard Noll and Adriane Berger
Tainted GreatnessAntisemitism and Cultural Heroesedited by Nancy A. HarrowitzTemple University Press, Philadelphia, 1994
Random HouseNew York, 1997
Princeton University PressPrinceton, 1994
Academics in DenialFascism and Myth
Robert S. Ellwood SUNY, New York, 1999
Bryan S. RennieSUNY, New York 1996
David CaveOxford University Press
New York, 1993
“Eliade had Jewish friends …”
JOSEPH GOEBBELS(1897-1945)
So did he, and a Jewish mistress too …
Judentum not individual Jews
JOHANN VON LEERS – OMAR AMIN(1902-1965)
Cf. Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question, Deutsch-Franzosische Jahrbucher, 1844
http://www.radioislam.org/marx/marxen.htm
Spirituality
Alfred Rosenberg(1893-1946)
Stark Realities Fascism and Myth
Houston Stewart Chamberlain(1855-1927)
Myth in Anthropology
Bronislaw Malinowski, (1884-1942). "Myth in Primitive Psychology," in Magic, Science and Religion, (1954:96-111).
Summary of Malinowski’s View
It is essential to ask how are myths used in social situations where they are important and not to base theories on the reading of texts.
John Middleton (1921-)
"a myth is a statement about society and man's place in it and in the surrounding universe....Myths and cosmological notions are concerned with the relationship of a people with other peoples, with nature and with the supernatural."
John Middleton, ed., Myth and Cosmos, New York,
Natural History Press, 1967: x.
Myth and Narrative
Walter Fisher, Human Communication as Narration
Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1987
Political Myth
Henry Tudor, Political Myth,London, Macmillan, 1972
Myth defined:A story with culturally formative power that functions to direct the life and thought of individuals, groups or societies.
Types of Myth
Fiction
Semi-fiction
Historical stories
Fiction – Myths
The Bodhisattva in the deer park
Semi-Fictitious Myths
King Arthur
King Arthur and Glastonbury
Historical Myths
Life in the Cape
Burgersdorp
Crossing the Orange
The Trek
Trek Routes
Settlement
ZULULAND
Tugela
Zulu
Dingane (d. 1843)
Treachery
Troubles
Resolution
A SaviourAndries Pretorius (1789-1853)
Blood River
Defenses
Sacred Ground
Sacred Ground
Salvation History
Battle of Blood River 16 December 1836
The Vow
Church of the Vow
The First Church
The New World
Voortrekker Monument
Myth and Doctrine
“The Lord your God is One”
“Jesus is Lord”
God the FatherGod the SonGod the Holy Spirit
Three gods or One God?
What does the Hebrew Bible say?What does the New Testament say?What do Christians say?
Doctrines
That which is believed, a dogma. The official teachings or beliefs of a religious group.