RT Article
T1 The Memory of the Beginning: At the Source of Identity… = Pradžios prisiminimas : prie tapatybės ištakų...
JF Religija ir kultūra
VO 18/19
SP 126
OP 137
A1 Petrykowski, Piotr
LA English
PB Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1789567483
AB 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.
K1 atminties kultūra
K1 atmintis
K1 culture of memory
K1 Freedom
K1 Identity
K1 laikas
K1 laisvė
K1 Memory
K1 tapatybė
K1 Time
K1 tradicija
K1 Tradition
DO 10.15388/Relig.2016.10