Storytelling, Myth, and the Dreams Therein: A Critical Analysis of the Intertextuality of Christianity, Capitalism, and Americanism

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dc.contributor.advisorMacLennan, Anne
dc.contributor.authorBuesink, Jeremy John
dc.date.accessioned2023-12-08T14:27:07Z
dc.date.available2023-12-08T14:27:07Z
dc.date.issued2023-12-08
dc.date.updated2023-12-08T14:27:07Z
dc.degree.disciplineCommunication & Culture, Joint Program with Toronto Metropolitan University
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation, while dealing with many aspects of Americanism, argues that the hegemonic history of Christianity in America and the centrality of capitalism in national ethos have contributed to an impulse in the national psyche towards illusion. I argue that due to this impulse and privileging of illusion, and/or various ‘realities’, over actuality, much American violence takes place both within and without the nation’s borders. I demonstrate the harmful but seldom examined paradoxes produced and sustained by treating American values as sacrosanct in American life and in individual American lives, despite the varying definitions of those values along the spectrum of political and religious belief, the ways they are interpreted, and the manners in which they are executed. Underpinning my examination of the intertextualization of Christianity and Americanism, are queer theory, postmodern theory, and critical race theory, thereby employing theoretical perspectives that are not strictly associated with benefitting examinations of Christianity or Americanism, which is to say that these perspectives can broaden our appreciation of the outcomes of intertextuality.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/41630
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectAmerican studies
dc.subjectCommunication
dc.subjectReligion
dc.subject.keywordsAmericanism
dc.subject.keywordsAmerica
dc.subject.keywordsUnited States
dc.subject.keywordsAmerican Dream
dc.subject.keywordsChristianity
dc.subject.keywordsCapitalism
dc.subject.keywordsMetanarrative
dc.subject.keywordsMetaculture
dc.subject.keywordsMyth
dc.subject.keywordsStorytelling
dc.subject.keywordsFundamentalism
dc.subject.keywordsReligion
dc.subject.keywordsEssentialism
dc.subject.keywordsAffect
dc.subject.keywordsDemocracy
dc.subject.keywordsConsumerism
dc.subject.keywordsCulture
dc.subject.keywordsCultural policy
dc.subject.keywordsImplicit cultural policy
dc.subject.keywordsDogma
dc.subject.keywordsEssence
dc.subject.keywordsIdentity
dc.subject.keywordsTolerance
dc.subject.keywordsDonald Trump
dc.subject.keywordsNeoliberalism
dc.subject.keywordsVoid
dc.subject.keywordsIntertextuality
dc.subject.keywordsUtopia
dc.subject.keywordsApocalypse
dc.subject.keywordsQueer theory
dc.subject.keywordsPostmodernism
dc.subject.keywordsCritical Race Theory
dc.subject.keywordsCultural studies
dc.subject.keywordsCritical theory
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical Economy
dc.subject.keywordsMorality
dc.subject.keywordsEthics
dc.subject.keywordsViolence
dc.subject.keywordsIllusion
dc.subject.keywordsReality
dc.subject.keywordsParadox
dc.subject.keywordsCommunity
dc.subject.keywordsCommunications
dc.titleStorytelling, Myth, and the Dreams Therein: A Critical Analysis of the Intertextuality of Christianity, Capitalism, and Americanism
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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