Journal article
Personal Heroes, Religion, and Transcendental Metanarratives
Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.), v 11(2), pp 209-229
01 Jun 1996
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Abstract
Examines the contemporary nature & importance of personal heroes, based on a randomly sampled questionnaire survey of 627 Philadelphia, PA, adults. It is argued that heroes represent mythological & transcendental realms of personal meaning that stretch beyond the limits of the profane. Based on this, the extremely low overall level of hero identification (40%) supports the hypothesis that modern society is demythologized & removed from the plane of grand metanarratives of meaning. Those who identified heroes most often cited local heroes of ordinary life, & it is suggested that this trend parallels a social abandonment of the transcendental in favor of glorified everyday acts of home, family, & work. The results demonstrated no significant correlation between hero identification & age, gender, ethnicity, education, or religion; however, a relationship was found between concern with transcendental meaning & hero identification. 3 Tables, 36 References. Adapted from the source document.
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- Title
- Personal Heroes, Religion, and Transcendental Metanarratives
- Creators
- Douglas Porpora - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Sociological forum (Randolph, N.J.), v 11(2), pp 209-229
- Publisher
- Springer Nature
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1996UU23500003
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0040517362
- Other Identifier
- 991019168253304721
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