Title Fabricating founders in early modern England : history, rhetoric, and the origins of Christianity / by Lauren Horn Griffin

Published Leiden : Boston : Brill, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 231 pages) Series Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion ; volume 22 Supplements to Method & theory in the study of religion ; v. 22. Summary "In Fabricating Founders in Early Modern England, Lauren Horn Griffin argues that in order to understand nationalisms, we need a clearer understanding of the types of cultural myths, symbols, and traditions that legitimate them. Myths of origin and election, memories of a greater and purer past, and narratives of persecution and mission are required for the production and maintenance of powerful national sentiments. Through an investigation of how early modern Catholics and Protestants reimagined, reinterpreted, and rewrote the lives of the founder-saints who spread Christianity in England, this book offers a theoretical framework for the study of origin narratives. Analyzing the discursive construction of time and place, the invocation of forces beyond the human to naturalize and authorize, and the role of visual and ritual culture in fabrications of the past, this book provides a case study for how to approach claims about founding figures. Serving as a timely example of the dependence of national identity on key cultural resources, Griffin shows how origin narratives - particularly the founding figures that anchor them - function as uniquely powerful rhetorical tools for the cultural production of regional and national identity."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 22, 2023) Subject Catholic Church -- Doctrines -- History -- 16th century SUBJECT Catholic Church fast Subject Fathers of the church -- History and criticism Fathers of the church -- Influence Religious thought -- England -- 16th century Christianity and culture -- England -- History -- 16th century Christianity -- Origin. Religion -- Methodology Religion -- Study and teaching. Church history -- 16th century. Christianity and culture Christianity -- Origin Church history Fathers of the church Fathers of the church -- Influence Religion -- Methodology Religion -- Study and teaching Religious thought Theology, Doctrinal SUBJECT England -- Church history -- 16th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043267 Subject England Genre/Form Electronic books Church history Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2023024077 ISBN 9004514368 9789004514362

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