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The Mutilating God
Gerald Peters
其他書名
Authorship and Authority in the Narrative of Conversion
出版University of Massachusetts, 1993
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / American / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Semiotics & TheoryReligion / GeneralSocial Science / Anthropology / Cultural & SocialTRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary
ISBN08702389149780870238918
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0kFZAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Peters argues that the concept of conversion can be connected to the magical transformations of the human body in the initiation practices of early cultures. In later monotheistic or "logos" centered societies, these rituals were transformed into the narrative patterns and metaphors that link individual identity with metaphysically grounded forms of social unity and power. In the modern world conversion narratives have become a means of both liberation and coercion. If they have become a strategy by which individualized identities undermine traditional forms of social authority, they are also, ultimately, the means by which political entities impose their ideological visions of totality on others.