Mythmaking and Social Formation in the Study of Early Christianity

Brown, Ian

doi:10.1111/rec3.12192

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“…TS Eliot is known as the most well-known literature writer of the modern world. In The Waste Land, Eliot had shown a plethora of myths and mythical methods to emphasise the experiences and emotions related to fertility loss and deaths (Brown, 2016).…”

Section: Use Of Myth In Modern Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Florean Fortescue had helped Harry in the History of Magic homework regarding witch-burning. There was a historical witch-hunter, Sir John Fortescue who had enforced British witchcraft laws 1563 to burn the witches (Brown, 2016).…”

Section: Mythmaking In Modern Literature: Harry Pottermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These plants which looked like human face was considered to contain human spirits by the Middle Age people. Besides, it was also believed that these plants can feel their spirits' pain, hence, they screamed in agony (Brown, 2016). The famous Philosopher's stone is the legend from Western Alchemy.…”

Section: Mythmaking In Modern Literature: Harry Pottermentioning

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Mythmaking In Modern Literature: Harry Potter by J.K. Rolling

Dızayı¹,

Bagirlar²

2022

J. Adv. Res. Soc. Sci.

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Up to date myths are regarded as universal and enduring for their depicting human’s understanding and knowledge. It presents clues and intimations to Man’s origins of belief and life. Harry Potter, a series of storytelling written by J.K. Rolling, is a metaphoric presentation of myths and cultural background behind each one of them. This study investigates and explores how J.K. Rolling involves in origins of cultural textually while sharing mythological ideas in modern literature as a creative way to give new senses to each of them. With its unique demonstration, Harry Potter places an outstanding position in giving myth a new dimension and ties ancient with present via a new style of mythmaking in modern literature. The study conducts an analytic explanation of the importance of mythmaking to literature in general and specifically in Harry Potter. The findings that the study arrives at are that myths are true replications of cultures and societies, and Rolling's stories make new connection with the depth of human superficiality as well as it renders the possibility to revive mythological mentality in modern era.

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Section: Use Of Myth In Modern Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mythmaking In Modern Literature: Harry Pottermentioning

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Mythmaking In Modern Literature: Harry Potter by J.K. Rolling

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Bagirlar²

2022

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“…Brown notes that “myth‐making—the practice of producing stories—is dialectically related to social formation—the practice of organising in groups based on modes of production” …”

Section: The Etymology Of “Myth” and The Social Function Of Myth‐makingmentioning

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“…Brown notes that "myth-making-the practice of producing stories-is dialectically related to social formation-the practice of organising in groups based on modes of production". 30 This includes science as a mode of production: although it is "commonly accepted that medicine combines both 'science' and 'art'… the assumptions underlying the science of medicine are rarely explicated or debated". 10 Instead, medicin's own origin story has set up the field to function in a bifurcated way.…”

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Myths and social structure: The unbearable necessity of mythology in medical education

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Context Myth busting engages scholars in the critical examination of commonly accepted but poorly evidenced claims with the goal of instilling quality and trust in knowledge making. The debunking of such knowledge “myths” and associated misguided practices purportedly serves to avert resources and attention from wasteful and dangerous scholarship. We address the myth that “all myths in medical education deserve to be busted”. Methods Using a critical narrative approach, we searched the medical education literature for orientations to myths and myth busting, and reviewed this literature analytically drawing from the sociology of science and Merton's concepts of manifest and latent functions. The results of this analysis are presented in the form of a narrative that deploys the articles reviewed to explore the utility of myth busting for medical education reform and begins with a brief exploration of the etymology of “myth” and how meaning making is related to symbols, practices and storytelling. Results Our analysis revealed the important function of myths in the social practice of medical education and practice. A deconstruction of five salient examples of the contemporary myth in medical education (the myth of the “ideal candidate”, the myth of “cut‐throats”, the myth of “cadaver stories”, the myth of “learning styles”, and the myth of “patient information leaflets”) demonstrates that myths continue to have material effects even after they have been busted. Conclusions Our analysis makes evident that myth busting disrupts, renegotiates and reconstitutes socio‐epistemic relationships rather than simply correcting falsehoods. We also argue that myths play important and inescapable roles in the social practice of medical education and the negotiation of values, and in constructing the conditions for group change and transformation. Imperatives related to humanism, compassion and patient engagement offer a healthy humanising counter‐mythologising that we suggest must survive any contemporary myth‐busting endeavour aimed at improving medical education practice.

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Mythmaking and Social Formation in the Study of Early Christianity

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Mythmaking In Modern Literature: Harry Potter by J.K. Rolling

Mythmaking In Modern Literature: Harry Potter by J.K. Rolling

Myths and social structure: The unbearable necessity of mythology in medical education

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