Newer archaeologies of the soul: avatars of religious consciousness in modern European fiction

Abstract

The juxtaposition of cultural eras and belief systems reached a new encyclopedic scale in poetic narratives and anthropological treatises from the Renaissance onward as we see in the works of Rabelais and Kircher. In the romantic age, Goethe's completed Faust established a new epochal standard for probing the story of human spiritual development over millennia. Heirs to this rich tradition, authors such as Mann and Joyce felt liberated to re-examine mythological patterns and varieties of religious consciousness as a crucial heritage against the backdrop of modern strains of negation and deconstruction of belief systems. Combining selfcritical irony with brilliant depictions of literary and psycho-historical avatars, their novels finally suggest a spiritual super-reality that emerges from the colossal repertory of evolutionary evidence.Keywords Archetype Á Avatar Á Modernism Á Religion[T]o the archaeological gaze of the analyst who digs rather deeper, religion appears more like a psychodrama whose origins reach much further back, long before the invention of writing, and indeed into the earliest phylogenic roots of the human race-Jan Assmann (p. 46).The juxtaposition of cultural eras and belief systems reached a new encyclopedic scale in poetic narratives and anthropological treatises from the Renaissance onward as we see in the works of Rabelais and Kircher. In the romantic age, Goethe's completed Faust established a new epochal standard for probing the story of human spiritual development over millennia. Heirs to this rich tradition, authors such as Mann and Joyce felt liberated to re-examine mythological patterns and varieties of religious consciousness as a crucial heritage against the backdrop of modern strains

Development Model of Religious Consciousness in the Implementation of Islamic Boarding College

“…Recent research says on a new scale in the study of culture and belief systems, religious awareness as an important legacy against the background of modernity and deconstruction of the belief system [4]. This is reinforced by the emergence of religious behavior such as prayer and worship not seen as a primitive phenomenon but as an ethical phenomenon [5].…”