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The Story in Religion : Tellers, Readers, Listeners.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stringer, Martin D., author.
- Series:
- Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies.
- Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mythology.
- Popular culture.
- Religion and sociology.
- Snow White (Tale).
- Storytelling--Religious aspects.
- Storytelling.
- Tales.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (304 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.
- System Details:
- text file rdaft
- Summary:
- Drawing on theories of myth and pop-cultural narratives, this book develops a sociology of the story that shows how stories create meaning in contemporary religious practices.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue The sociology of the story
- Returning to the story
- Revisiting myth
- How stories work
- Methodology
- Structure of this book
- Chapter 1: Classification
- Telling Tylorian tales
- Words
- Eurocentrism
- A digression on alien abduction
- What is real?
- Who's listening?
- Narrative and literature
- Flow
- Telling Snow White
- Chapter 2: Function
- Functionalism
- Evolution and imagination
- Poets and philosophers
- Digression on apocalypse
- Function, purpose, use
- The entertainer
- Good to think with
- Emotion and experience
- Snow White as catharsis
- Chapter 3: Form
- Morphology
- Seven plots
- It's all Greek
- The natural history of the vampire
- Narrative structures?
- Character
- Episodes
- Stackability
- Snow White, a history
- Chapter 4: Structure
- Structuralism
- Structure and content
- The grand project
- The gender of fairies
- Going in deep
- The structure of the mind
- The human body
- Structures and patterns
- The disneyfication of Snow White
- Chapter 5: Meaning
- Psychoanalysis
- Hidden meanings?
- Origins
- The many faces of Frankenstein's monster
- We are all human
- Sex and violence
- The unspoken
- Dreams
- Snow White's stepmother on the couch
- Chapter 6: Imagination
- Archetypes
- Here be monsters
- Rationality
- Digression on parallel universes
- Project fear
- The very human other
- More in this world
- Speculation, fantasy and memory
- The mirror as portal
- Chapter 7: Authority
- Metaphor
- Literacy
- Popular and common
- Digression on the werewolf
- Dominant discourses
- Demotic discourses
- The ecology of stories
- Allusions and hints
- Snow White, the Disney remake
- Chapter 8: Identity
- Heroes
- The idea of the hero.
- Facing the patriarchy
- Superheroes
- The hero as individual
- Identity
- The power to change
- Belonging
- Snow White as hero
- Chapter 9: Ritual
- Ritual
- Ritual story or story in ritual
- Entering dreamtime
- Coming-of-age
- Telling stories as ritual
- The sociology of prayer
- Rites de métamorphose
- Ritual structure
- Snow White's initiation
- Chapter 10: Religion
- Hierophony
- The big questions
- Beyond words
- Digression on the Jedi
- Being human
- The world of the story
- Stories and religion
- AI and the suspension of truth
- Snow White and the world of the princess
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index.
- ISBN:
- 1-350-55942-3
- 1-350-55940-7
- OCLC:
- 1581935175
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