[RELS 250] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 28 pages long Study Guide!
Document Summary
Basically this course is about how mythology shapes our modern ideologies and how it"s applied in our lives. Your identity is constructed from many mechanisms of power. A community is created from these common constructions. All the theories we will discuss about how to understand myth imbed or encode some sort of ideological assumption. What you think of your identity is questionable it"s changing . The last thing a fish notices is that it"s underwater we are the fish, the water is ideology. *enculturation: to have a culture imposed upon you. Ideology is not just ideas in your head, but things that you do things that you"re (cid:532)obligated(cid:533) to do . A system of ideas that structure and regulate our understanding of. Mystical function of mythology: myths are vehicles towards liberation. These myths provoke internal movements that, given the right trigger/desire, can transform you.
