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Making and unmaking political myth in the era of human rights.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Making and unmaking political myth in the era of human rights./
Author:	Reinbold, Jenna.
Description:	260 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Richard D. Hecht.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-10A.
Subject:	Political Science, International Law and Relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3283758
ISBN:	9780549269885

Making and unmaking political myth in the era of human rights.
Reinbold, Jenna.

Making and unmaking political myth in the era of human rights. - 260 p.

Adviser: Richard D. Hecht.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007.

This dissertation presents an examination of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an exemplar of political myth. As a scholar of religion, I do not use the term 'political myth' pejoratively; rather, within the study of religion the term denotes a narrative possessing certain key structural and/or functional characteristics, the substance of which have been repeatedly debated and reformulated throughout the history of the study of religion. Most generally, such mythmaking entails the generation of symbolically-charged narratives designed to channel, and thereby to quell, social anxiety and to orient select groups toward desirable beliefs and practices. That the UDHR might be understood to perform such a function is clear from the extensive records surrounding the negotiation of this document and from the public broadcast, in numerous speeches and articles, of its promise and its purpose. In addition to this matter of overall narrative function, I explore the manner in which the UDHR exhibits a number of quite specific mythopoeic characteristics, the most predominant of which are the generation of a 'cosmogonic' temporal orientation and the emplacement of a 'sacred' item emblematic of the subjects and the principles addressed by this document. Building upon the 'cosmogonic' dimension of this document, I have consolidated a variety of mythopoeic characteristics---characteristics typically articulated somewhat haphazardly throughout various conflicting theorizations of myth---into a coherent functionalist theorization centered upon three interrelated gestures of 'religious' meaning-making: sacralization, community-building, and regulation. Although the framers of the UDHR did not articulate their endeavors in terms of mythmaking, I assert that their overtly secular orientation does not preclude such an analysis when mythmaking is understood in a broad sense as something intrinsic to various institutions of human meaning-making. Such analytical broadening remains in keeping with the most contemporary developments within Religious Studies scholarship. My examination of the items of sacredness, community, and order thus takes into consideration the current theoretical state of these items as well as the question of their applicability to the creation of the UDHR.

ISBN: 9780549269885Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017399
Political Science, International Law and Relations.

Making and unmaking political myth in the era of human rights.
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