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Title |
Title of document |
Key Thinkers of Tradition - Tradition |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Steven Engler; Mount Royal University; Canada |
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Religious Studies |
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Keyword(s) |
study of religion; invention of tradition; categories in religion; concepts in religion; Robert Redfield; Edward Shils; Hobsbawm; Boyer |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Religious Studies |
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Description |
Abstract |
This chapter will clarify tradition’s relation to temporality through exploring the metaphor of tradition as a gift from the past (or from the divine). It highlights tradition’s conservatism, (i) as it engages those in the present in relations of reciprocity with an idealized (or illusory) version of the past, while at the same time (ii) doing this work by means of misrecognition. That is, the reception of tradition is portrayed as a passive repetition, which ignores tradition’s ongoing invention. This obscures its ideological dimensions and their relation to issues of identity construction. (The main example here will be the Brazilian spirit-possession religion, Candomblé.) |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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01-Oct-2024 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
File format |
PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/38405 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.38405 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; Tradition |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |