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Foundational Myth

A Foundational Myth is a sacred narrative that functions as a legitimizing story for a culture, institution, or belief system by attributing its origins to divine action or cosmic events, thereby distinguishing it from mere historical or fictional accounts through its normative and identity-forming role.

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Citations

25

Authors

19

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

4

Variants

Foundation MythOrigin Myth

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Publications

20

Identity, procedures and performance: how authoritarian regimes legitimize their rule

Christian von Soest, Julia Grauvogel · Contemporary Politics · 2017 · 225 citations

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“Integrated reporting is like God: no one has met Him, but everybody talks about Him”

Delphine Gibassier, Michelle Rodrigue, Diane‐Laure Arjaliès · Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal · 2018 · 147 citations · Full text

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Returns to a Native Land: Indigeneity and Decolonization in the Anglophone Caribbean

Melanie J. Newton · Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism · 2013 · 128 citations

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Rome and France in Africa: Recovering Colonial Algeria's Latin Past

Patricia M. E. Lorcin · French Historical Studies · 2002 · 98 citations

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Skinhead culture: the ideologies, mythologies, religions and conspiracy theories of racist skinheads

John Pollard · Patterns of Prejudice · 2016 · 53 citations

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Authors

25

  1. CB
    Claude Blanckaert

    Centre Alexandre Koyré, France

    1 publications · 31 citations

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  2. DW
    Daniel W. Berman

    1 publications · 36 citations

    1

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  3. PK
    Pamela Kyle Crossley

    1 publications · 27 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. JT
    Jennifer Tupper

    University of Regina, Canada

    1 publications · 29 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. AN
    Ashis Nandy

    Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, India

    1 publications · 22 citations

    1

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Institutions

19

  1. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  3. Harvard University Press

    Cambridge, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  4. New York University

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  5. Western University

    London, Canada

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    441 citations

  6. University of Bristol

    Bristol, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  7. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  8. University of Trento

    Trento, Italy

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    30 citations

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Venues

  1. Contemporary Politics

    1 publications · 225 citations

    1

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  2. Bulletin of the history of medicine

    1 publications · 15 citations

    1

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  3. Journal of Language and Politics

    1 publications · 52 citations

    1

    h-index

  4. Late imperial China

    1 publications · 27 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. Management & Organizational History

    M&OH · 1 publications · 10 citations

    1

    h-index

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