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Rethinking The Canon: A Conceptual History Of The Layered Foundations Of Western Politics, Dembael Seidi, Muhammad Andi Firmansyah
Rethinking The Canon: A Conceptual History Of The Layered Foundations Of Western Politics, Dembael Seidi, Muhammad Andi Firmansyah
Jurnal Wacana Politik
Many accounts of Western political history suggest a direct, straight line from Ancient Greece to modern democracy. This article argues that this “Great Books” narrative is a myth that ignores how political ideas actually change over time. Using Reinhart Koselleck’s Begriffsgeschichte (conceptual history) framework, we demonstrate that key terms such as “law” and “citizenship” were not merely preserved but fundamentally transformed as they moved through Greco-Roman, Islamic, and Judeo-Christian civilizations. We call this transformation “conceptual alchemy”: a series of semantic translations through which Greek rationalism was retheorized via Islamic metaphysics and later synthesized by medieval scholasticism. Consequently, rather than a …
Effects Of Christian Colonization On Celtic Mythology From Ancient Ireland To Contemporary Paganism, Evelyn Hanna
Effects Of Christian Colonization On Celtic Mythology From Ancient Ireland To Contemporary Paganism, Evelyn Hanna
Aurora
Christian colonization played a critical role in reshaping Celtic mythology, yet the extent to which these transformations continue to influence modern perceptions of Paganism remains underexamined. This study investigates how the transcription of originally oral Celtic traditions by Christian monks altered the preservation of myth through reinterpretation and ideological influence. Drawing on historical and mythological sources, it analyzes key examples, including the transformation of the goddess Brigid into Saint Brigid and the reclassification of the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Aos Sí as folkloric or demonic figures. These cases demonstrate that the recording of myth was not a neutral process …
2019u_Lac07_Approved_Cr_Hist-3083-Revision1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
2019u_Lac07_Approved_Cr_Hist-3083-Revision1, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
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2019u_Lac06_Approved_Cr_Hist-1003, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
2019u_Lac06_Approved_Cr_Hist-1003, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
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2019u_Lac16_Approved_Cr_Hist-1023-World Civilization-Since-1660, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
2019u_Lac16_Approved_Cr_Hist-1023-World Civilization-Since-1660, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
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2019u_Lac15_Approved_Cr_Hist-1013-World Civilization-To-1660, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
2019u_Lac15_Approved_Cr_Hist-1013-World Civilization-To-1660, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
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2019u_Lac07_Approved_Cr_Hist-3083, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
2019u_Lac07_Approved_Cr_Hist-3083, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
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2021u_Lac14_Approved_Cd_Hist-3283-Society-And-Thought-In-Europe, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
2021u_Lac14_Approved_Cd_Hist-3283-Society-And-Thought-In-Europe, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
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2021u_Lac13_Approved_Cm_Hist-3173-Classical-Mediterranean-Civilizations, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
2021u_Lac13_Approved_Cm_Hist-3173-Classical-Mediterranean-Civilizations, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
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2020u_Lac87_Approved_Cm_Hist-3503-Us-Foreign-Relations-Since-1900-Rev2, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
2020u_Lac87_Approved_Cm_Hist-3503-Us-Foreign-Relations-Since-1900-Rev2, Undergraduate Curriculum Council
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