Using canonization as a framework to engage the process of history creation and collective memory, this thesis seeks to understand why certain narratives gain a cultural resonance and enter a historical "canon" (and why others do not). Chapter 1 lays theoretical groundwork for the connection between canonization and history-making, and Chapters 2 and 3 are case studies taken from United States history (Rosa Parks and Japanese internment, respectively).
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Senior thesis (AB)--Brown University, 2019
Concentration: Religious Studies; Political Science
Collins, Christine,
"Sanctifying the Past: History-making as a process of canonization"
(2019).
Religious Studies Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/sb5t-0e43
