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A ressurgência do Mito
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Em meio a um cenário contemporâneo moldado por profundas transformações culturais e
científicas, convulsionado por efervescências políticas e sociais e atormentado por enfrentamentos
ideológico-religiosos, é cabível imaginar o ressurgimento de mitos? Lembrando sua
polissemia, não estamos falando dos mitos personalísticos fugazes e transitórios, mas de mitos
autênticos, aqueles que carregam narrativas de significação simbólica referentes a aspectos
da condição humana. Há lugar para o “sagrado” em uma sociedade tecnicista enfeitiçada por
lendas, crendices, amuletos, simpatias, milagres, oráculos, curandeiros, bruxaria e discos voadores?
O que o presente artigo tenta demonstrar, à luz de um estudo entrelaçado com várias
disciplinas e tomando por empréstimo escritos de eminentes autores, é que acreditar em um
fenômeno desprovido de suporte científico comprovável, como é o do tema Ovni, se encaixa
em um sistema de crenças psicossociocultural. Em outras palavras, que estamos vivenciando a
ressurgência de um mito “pós-moderno”.
In a contemporary scenery molded by deep cultural and scientific transformations, convulsed by political and social effervescences and plagued by ideological and religious conflicts, is it reasonable to imagine the resurgence of myths? Remembering its polysemy, we are not talking about the personalistic, fleeting and transient myths, but about authentic myths, narratives of those who carry symbolic significance related to aspects of the human condition. Is there a place for the “sacred” in a technicist society bewitched by legends, superstitions, amulets, miracles, oracles, healers, witchcraft and flying saucers? What this article tries to demonstrate, in the light of a study intertwined with various disciplines and borrowing from eminent authors’ writings, is that the belief in a phenomenon devoid of verifiable scientific support, as is the UFO case, fits a system of psychosociocultural beliefs. In other words, we have been experiencing a resurgence of “postmodern” myth.
In a contemporary scenery molded by deep cultural and scientific transformations, convulsed by political and social effervescences and plagued by ideological and religious conflicts, is it reasonable to imagine the resurgence of myths? Remembering its polysemy, we are not talking about the personalistic, fleeting and transient myths, but about authentic myths, narratives of those who carry symbolic significance related to aspects of the human condition. Is there a place for the “sacred” in a technicist society bewitched by legends, superstitions, amulets, miracles, oracles, healers, witchcraft and flying saucers? What this article tries to demonstrate, in the light of a study intertwined with various disciplines and borrowing from eminent authors’ writings, is that the belief in a phenomenon devoid of verifiable scientific support, as is the UFO case, fits a system of psychosociocultural beliefs. In other words, we have been experiencing a resurgence of “postmodern” myth.
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Mitos Crença psicossociocultural Myths Psychosociocultural beliefs
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Citation
Consciências. Porto. ISSN 1645-6564. 5 (2016) 75-100.
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Edições Universidade Fernando Pessoa. CTEC – Centro Transdisciplinar de Estudos da Consciência