Imagologie etnică și stereotipuri culturale în scrierile lui Martin Luther
One of the purposes of the article is to clarify, based on the reputed orientalist Edward Said’s thought, the concept of imagology which deals with the historical past and present of the “others”, that is, of the neighbouring and far-away fellow humans belonging to different ethnic entities, such a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Editura Universității Adventus
2016-12-01
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| Series: | TheoRhēma |
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| Online Access: | https://publications.uadventus.ro/index.php/thrh/article/view/101 |
| Summary: | One of the purposes of the article is to clarify, based on the reputed orientalist Edward Said’s thought, the concept of imagology which deals with the historical past and present of the “others”, that is, of the neighbouring and far-away fellow humans belonging to different ethnic entities, such as Poles, Czechs, Slavs, Italians, English, French etc. Having analysed the concept of imagology, the article points out that imagological stereo-types are present in Martin Luther’s thought. He was ambivalent with regard to the Turks. They were the most feared enemies of Europe and some of their leaders were promiscuous, but also he valued them in some respects as virtuous people whom God used to punish the sins of Christian Europe. On the other hand, Luther demonised the Jews and blamed them for almost everything that went wrong in Europe. So, a second purpose of the current article has been to analyse the ethnic images / portraits and the cultural stereotypes of Luther’s discourse about the Turks, the enemies from afar, and about the Jews who were considered the potential enemies from within. It is well known that Luther's anti-Semitic writings were used by theologians, in the twentieth century, as one of the justifications for the Holocaust.
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| ISSN: | 1842-0613 2784-2665 |