Realizing narratives make future time real

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ID4355994
AuthorsAndrew J Weigert (University of Notre Dame, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume23
Issue3
Pages317-336
Publication date2014-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x11417320
OpenAlexW2121396311
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited24

Realizing narratives render projected futures knowable as real. Projected futures are intrinsic to forming identity and informing motives. Endtime is a future situated at a critical rupture, an 'end' of a world as we know it within a culturally expected duration. Some prophetic versions provide realizing narratives of endtime as a context for identity that combines expectation and emotion into powerful motivational accounts for believers. Such religious narratives may suggest different futures for believers and non-believers. A pragmatic narrative illustrated by backcasting from preferred futures to present actions suggests that a normative task for contemporary selves is choosing among realizing narratives. A pragmatic turn offers criteria for making future-implicating choices and fashioning a cosmopolitan identity

Aesthetics · Context (archaeology · Economics · Epistemology · Futures contract · Identity (music · Narrative · Normative · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development · Social Psychology · Social Science and Policy Research

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