Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions

Éliade, Mircéa

doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226163307.001.0001

Cited by 8 publications

(12 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…With the code of truth, there is also a fashion that spontaneously arises in culture. Eliade, analyzing the origins of popularity of ideas by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Claude Lévi-Strauss in the European intellectual culture of the XX century, explained it with a new vision of man, a new perspective of man in space, a new way of the world, a new 'mythology of matter' (Eliade, 2002). This, in the context of the current analysis, speaks of a new code of truth in the history of European culture.…”

Section: The Code Of Truth In Controlling the Stereotype Of Mass Consmentioning

confidence: 75%

“…Cultural forms carrying the code of truth put people in a situation of understanding the world. In particular, modern authors refer the myths that contain the symbolism of elements to the primary symbols of culture that determine the archetype and the language of this community consciousness (Mamardashvili and Pyatigorskiy, 1999;Eliade, 2002). In the study of the correlation between symbol, culture, and consciousness, the genetic role of the symbols of elements is emphasized, Greek philosophy having begun with it, which initiated the formation of a new code of truth in the European culture, that is, the truth of science (Konev, 2008).…”

Section: The Code Of Truth In Controlling the Stereotype Of Mass Consmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…'Cosmological symbolism,' which gives the image of the world in the form of a centered 'sacral space,' as Mircea Eliade emphasizes, forms an inhabited world of the man of archaic society, a system of religious ideas, a model of religious and social behavior. The code of truth is so significant that it determines the basic orientations of a person in the community, their violation making existence in the world impossible (Eliade, 2002).…”

Section: The Code Of Truth In Controlling the Stereotype Of Mass Consmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Cultural Code in Controlling Stereotypes of Mass Consciousness

Olga¹,

Larisa²,

Ирина³

et al. 2017

ERSJ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The article is concerned with the problem of interrelation between mental dynamics of mass subject and functions of cultural code in the context of modern media environment. The urgency of researching a hidden control mechanism through background knowledge and mass consciousness stereotypes is determined by the fact that modern global information and communication networks transform and destabilize the sociocultural semantic space in its historically developed order. The methodology of analyzing control of mass consciousness stereotypes is based on integration of sociocultural, semiotic, communicative aspects of studying properties of cultural code in the mass media theory. It is emphasized that code control of an individual's mentality dynamics is exercised anonymously. Knowledge of the reality where implicit instructions for an immediate perception of the world play a special role naturally forms stereotyped practices of understanding and action that are not reflected in everyday life. Codes set a certain limit of perception of events and their evaluation, catalyze a predicted stereotyped reaction. Cultural codes based on sign-oriented symbols form a semantic matrix that communicates basic orientation in the physical and sociocultural space to an individual's subconsciousness. This invisible framework, determinated by a sign-oriented form, ensures transmission of a socially significant meaning that is necessary for mutual understanding of people, social control of their actions and thinking. The tendency to dominate functional and adaptive rationality in the media environment is accompanied by a transformation of the world perception stereotype, erosion of semantic boundaries between the real and the virtual, the subjective and the objective.

show abstract

Section: The Code Of Truth In Controlling the Stereotype Of Mass Consmentioning

confidence: 75%

Section: The Code Of Truth In Controlling the Stereotype Of Mass Consmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Code Of Truth In Controlling the Stereotype Of Mass Consmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Cultural Code in Controlling Stereotypes of Mass Consciousness

Olga¹,

Larisa²,

Ирина³

et al. 2017

ERSJ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Mircea Eliade believed that the fear felt by the contemporary Western intellectual was due to his profound dissatisfaction with the obsolete forms of historically existing Christianity and to his passionate desire to shed his ancestral faith, a desire accompanied by an unexplainable feeling of guilt. "...As if he himself had killed a God in whom he could not believe but whose absence he could not bear...the success of certain ideas or ideologies reveals to us the spiritual and existential situation of all those for whom these ideas or ideologies constitute a kind of soteriology" (Eliade, 1967).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Needs of Terrorist

Тхостов¹,

Surnov²

2009

Psych. Rus.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Public interest in the occult is nothing new. Since the Renaissance, alchemy, astrology, palmistry, magic, witchcraft, the tarot, and other doctrines derived from the Hermetic tradition periodically have been the subject of widespread popularity (Collins, 1977;Eliade, 1976;Tiryakian, 1974;Yates, 1964). Yet, serious belief in irrational, archaic, and pagan practices among large numbers of people seems strangely out of place in the context of societies so throughly grounded in traditional religion, political-economic ideology, and scientific rationality (Gallup, 1978;Greeley, 1975;Glock and Bellah, 1976;Wuthnow, 1978;Zaretsky and Leone, 1974).…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Meanings of the Occult

Jorgensen

1982

The Sociological Quarterly

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Data from a participant‐observational study of the tarot are used to explore the social meanings of modern occultism and to examine certain rival contentions about these beliefs, practices, adherents, and the manner in which activities are or are not organized socially. Unlike collective behavioral audiences, which employ occultisms as a form of popular entertainment, the occult practitioners reported here participate in an “esoteric community” involving practitioner‐client relations, social networks, and small cult‐like groups. Although the occult tarot constitutes an elaborate theosophy, contemporary adherents selectively subscribe to these doctrines and they freely mix the occult, other esoteric teachings, and elements of traditional culture. When the tarot is used in a divinatory fashion as a service to the general public for pay, problems of legitimacy commonly arise. Occultists in the community deal with this problem by presenting themselves as “professionals.” Within the nominally pluralistic climate of American society, occultisms thereby become another path to dealing meaningfully with life's problems and expressing individual identity. Organized in terms of loose collections of practitioners and groups and supported by the larger cultic milieu, occult communities represent an adaptation to modern society which is likely to persist long after particular groups fail or particular individuals move on to other social scenes.

show abstract

Occultism, Witchcraft, and Cultural Fashions

Cited by 8 publications

References 0 publications

Cultural Code in Controlling Stereotypes of Mass Consciousness

Cultural Code in Controlling Stereotypes of Mass Consciousness

Needs of Terrorist

Social Meanings of the Occult

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About