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Rels. 205 Lecture 3.2 It’s a Myth

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.

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Rels. 205 Lecture 3.2 It’s a Myth

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  1. Rels. 205 Lecture 3.2It’s a Myth

  2. What do we mean by "myth"? “It’s a myth. Santa does not exist.”

  3. Conspiracies sometimes happen Hans Ernst Schneider = Hans Schwerte(1909-1945) (1945-1999)

  4. Myth “It’s a myth. Prof. Hexham didn’t win the $10,000,000lottery. Rudolf Bultmann (1884-1976) Jesus Christ and Mythology (1960) Demythologize

  5. Myth and Mystification Mircea Eliade (1907-1986)

  6. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987)

  7. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

  8. Richard Noll and Adriane Berger Princeton University Press Princeton, 1994 Random House New York, 1997 Tainted Greatness Antisemitism and Cultural Heroes edited by Nancy A. Harrowitz Temple University Press, Philadelphia, 1994

  9. Academics in DenialFascism and Myth Robert S. Ellwood SUNY, New York, 1999 Bryan S. Rennie SUNY, New York 1996 David Cave Oxford University Press New York, 1993

  10. “Eliade had Jewish friends …”

  11. JOSEPH GOEBBELS(1897-1945) So did he, and a Jewish mistress too …

  12. Judentum not individual Jews

  13. 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

  14. Spirituality Alfred Rosenberg(1893-1946)

  15. Stark Realities Fascism and Myth Houston Stewart Chamberlain(1855-1927)

  16. Myth in Anthropology Bronislaw Malinowski, (1884-1942). "Myth in Primitive Psychology," in Magic, Science and Religion, (1954:96-111).

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. Myth and Narrative Walter Fisher, Human Communication as Narration Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1987

  20. Political Myth Henry Tudor, Political Myth, London, Macmillan, 1972

  21. Myth defined: A story with culturally formative power that functions to direct the life and thought of individuals, groups or societies.

  22. Types of Myth Fiction Semi-fiction Historical stories

  23. Fiction – Myths The Bodhisattva in the deer park

  24. Semi-Fictitious Myths King Arthur

  25. King Arthur and Glastonbury

  26. Historical Myths

  27. Life in the Cape

  28. Burgersdorp

  29. Crossing the Orange

  30. The Trek

  31. Trek Routes

  32. Settlement

  33. ZULULAND

  34. Tugela

  35. Zulu

  36. Dingane (d. 1843)

  37. Treachery

  38. Troubles

  39. Resolution

  40. A SaviourAndries Pretorius (1789-1853)

  41. Blood River

  42. Defenses

  43. Sacred Ground

  44. Sacred Ground

  45. Salvation History Battle of Blood River 16 December 1836

  46. The Vow

  47. Church of the Vow

  48. The First Church

  49. The New World

  50. Voortrekker Monument

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