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Book Title
In Search of Dreamtime: The Quest for the Origin of Religion (Re
ISBN
9780226509853

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226509850
ISBN-13
9780226509853
eBay Product ID (ePID)
101936

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
232 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
In Search of Dreamtime : the Quest for the Origin of Religion
Subject
General, History, Sociology / Social Theory
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science, Psychology
Author
Tomoko Masuzawa
Series
Religion and Postmodernism Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
13.1 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
93-000518
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
306.609
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Original Lost: Myth and Ritual and the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 2. Society versus Difference: Durkheim's Shadowboxing 3. Accidental Mythology: Max Müller in and out of His Workshop 4. History on a Mystic Writing Pad: Freud Refounds Time Freud's Beginnings Lessons of the Wolf-Man Metapsychology of Temporality 5. Dreams Adrift Conclusion Notes Index
Synopsis
In this pioneering work of discourse analysis, Tomoko Masuzawa observes that the modern study of religion is peculiarly ambivalent toward the question of origin. Today's historians of religion maintain that they have abandoned speculative quests for the origin of religion; at the same time, they allege that concepts of absolute beginnings are fundamental to religion itself. By renouncing the desire for origins that they claim religious peoples embrace, historians can vicariously participate in the forbidden quest--so it seems--without forfeiting the authority accruing from their objectivist position. This ambivalence of contemporary scholars echoes their ambivalence toward the ancestral "giants" of the discipline: Durkheim, Müller, and Freud. Masuzawa shows that the speculations of these three men on the origins of religion render the very notion of time and history problematic and contain powerful instruments for dislodging the position of "Western man" as the keeper of knowledge. Her critical rereading of these forefathers is framed by a compelling discussion of the postmodernist subversion of absolute origins in the works of Walter Benjamin and Rosalind Krauss and a comparison of Mircea Eliade and Nancy Munn's accounts of the Australian aboriginal "dreamtime." Engaging a number of critical issues within the burgeoning field of cultural studies, Masuzawa's book will have far-reaching implications not only for religious studies but throughout the human sciences., In this pioneering work of discourse analysis, Tomoko Masuzawa observes that the modern study of religion is peculiarly ambivalent toward the question of origin. Today's historians of religion maintain that they have abandoned speculative quests for the origin of religion; at the same time, they allege that concepts of absolute beginnings are fundamental to religion itself. By renouncing the desire for origins that they claim religious peoples embrace, historians can vicariously participate in the forbidden quest-so it seems-without forfeiting the authority accruing from their objectivist position. This ambivalence of contemporary scholars echoes their ambivalence toward the ancestral "giants" of the discipline: Durkheim, M ller, and Freud. Masuzawa shows that the speculations of these three men on the origins of religion render the very notion of time and history problematic and contain powerful instruments for dislodging the position of "Western man" as the keeper of knowledge. Her critical rereading of these forefathers is framed by a compelling discussion of the postmodernist subversion of absolute origins in the works of Walter Benjamin and Rosalind Krauss and a comparison of Mircea Eliade and Nancy Munn's accounts of the Australian aboriginal "dreamtime." Engaging a number of critical issues within the burgeoning field of cultural studies, Masuzawa's book will have far-reaching implications not only for religious studies but throughout the human sciences.
LC Classification Number
BL60

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