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Tremlett, Paul-François
(2016).
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Abstract
• Structuralism and post-structuralism should be understood as part of a ‘turn’ in social theory and philosophy to ‘systems.’
• Lévi-Strauss’ approach to myth entwines linguistics and dynamic systems theory, pointing ‘back’ to formalism and ‘forward’ to post-structuralism.
• Lévi-Strauss’ critique of evolutionist and functionalist accounts of ‘primitive’ religion undermine notions of progress and accounts of the regulatory role of religion in the closed social system described by functionalism.
• Derrida’s account of language and deconstruction privileges the idea of the open system and has significant implications for textual, historical, and sociological studies of religion.
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- Book Section
- ISBN
- 0-19-872957-X, 978-0-19-872957-0
- Keywords
- Religious Studies; structuralism; post-structuralism; Claude Levi-Strauss; Jacques Derrida; Ernesto Laclau
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies > Religious Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Social Sciences and Global Studies
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- © 2016 Oxford University Press
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- Paul-François Tremlett