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Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity

Dermot Anthony Nestor

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Description:Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this work seeks to correct the pronounced tendency towards OCyanalytical groupismOCO in the academic literature. Challenging what Pierre Bourdieu has called OCyour primary inclination to think the world in a substantialist manner, OCO this study seeks to break with the vernacular categories and OCycommonsense primordialismsOCO encoded within the Biblical texts, whilst at the same time accounting for their tenacious hold on our social and political imagination. It is the recognition of the performative and reifying potential of these categories of ethno-political practice that disqualifies their appropriation as categories of social analysis."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity. To get started finding Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 289

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Release: 2014

ISBN: 0567468003

Description: Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity breaks new ground in the study of ethnic identity in the ancient world through the articulation of an explicitly cognitive perspective. In presenting a view of ethnicity as an epistemological rather than an ontological entity, this work seeks to correct the pronounced tendency towards OCyanalytical groupismOCO in the academic literature. Challenging what Pierre Bourdieu has called OCyour primary inclination to think the world in a substantialist manner, OCO this study seeks to break with the vernacular categories and OCycommonsense primordialismsOCO encoded within the Biblical texts, whilst at the same time accounting for their tenacious hold on our social and political imagination. It is the recognition of the performative and reifying potential of these categories of ethno-political practice that disqualifies their appropriation as categories of social analysis."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity. To get started finding Cognitive Perspectives on Israelite Identity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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