The Memory of the Beginning: At the Source of Identity… = Pradžios prisiminimas : prie tapatybės ištakų...
This article discusses the relationship between the development of individual identity and the culture of social memory. The starting point of the analysis is the hermeneutics of biblical texts referencing the postulate to remember and commemorate specific events in the history of the people of Isra...
| Subtitles: | Pradžios prisiminimas |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
2016
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| In: |
Religija ir kultūra
Year: 2016, Volume: 18/19, Pages: 126-137 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Tradition B Memory B atminties kultūra B culture of memory B tapatybė B laikas B Time B tradicija B Identity B Freedom B atmintis |
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| Summary: | This article discusses the relationship between the development of individual identity and the culture of social memory. The starting point of the analysis is the hermeneutics of biblical texts referencing the postulate to remember and commemorate specific events in the history of the people of Israel. Such remembrance, however, is not understood solely as a memory of the past, but instead becomes the point of reference for the present and the future. The results of the analysis of the biblical texts are then referenced to education in contemporary social and cultural settings. The author points out that breaking with the past causes confusion and disorientation with regard to the reference points in the future and ultimately affects the meaning of the present, which - deprived of perspective - acquires its own autotelic value. The lack of the culture of memory also results in reducing the past to an idyllic form, illusionary rather than authentic, thus becoming a mere object of longing. It also reduces the future to the merely incidental, uprooted from the past events and thoughtlessly independent of the human being. |
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| ISSN: | 1822-4539 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religija ir kultūra
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.15388/Relig.2016.10 |