What is Mother Earth? A Name, A Meme, A Conspiracy

Högre seminariet i religionsvetenskap och teologi bjuder in till en öppen föreläsning med Sam Gill, professor emeritus i Religious Studies vid University of Colorado Boulder. Gill föreläser på temat "What is Mother Earth? A Name, A Meme, A Conspiracy".

Abstract

A rich appreciation of Mother Earth—in the entwined contexts of Native American, Australian Aboriginal, and Western intellectual history—is accomplished in this lecture using new perspectives and strategies: Mother Earth as name, meme, and conspiracy. These approaches are developed and illustrated to offer insight into the dynamics of identity formation of individual cultures and amalgams of cultures, always occurring in the context of creative encounters. Projecting beyond the Mother Earth example, the lecture proposes a vision of the academic study of cultures and religions that focuses on gesture, repetition, body, and movement and a study that embraces coherence, in the presence of the constant threat of incoherence, as being often more important than meaning.

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