What does it mean to canonize a text?
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It is a term borrowed from Theology. To canonize a text is to render said text as being significant at defining something, and the standard by which something is determined as belonging to what it is defining. So for religions it is their holy texts, but for secular things it would be other stuff. So with Star Wars, for example, canon is what has been put on film, and whatever books/tv shows/video games Disney says are canon. Everything else is non-canon and so while it can be an entertaining story it did not officially happen in the Star Wars universe.
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