Reconfiguring Nationalism: The Roll Call of the Fallen Soldiers (1800–2001)
Devastating tragedies, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks or the massacre during the Polish protests of 1970, are still commemorated with a roll call of the victims’ names, which is publicly pronounced. As a matter of civil or political religion, this ritual is studied by political scientists and so...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2017, Volume: 10, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 16-43 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
War dead
/ Presence
/ Appell (Military)
/ Ritual
/ National consciousness
/ Civil religion
/ History 1800-2001
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion ZB Sociology ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
imagined community
nationalism
war ritualism
roll call
fallen soldiers
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| Summary: | Devastating tragedies, such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks or the massacre during the Polish protests of 1970, are still commemorated with a roll call of the victims’ names, which is publicly pronounced. As a matter of civil or political religion, this ritual is studied by political scientists and sociologists and restricted to a specific national context. For the first time, a comparative method of history of religions is applied in order to retrace the transnational diffusion of this nationalist ritual from the Napoleonic era, passing through the fascist European experience, to the present day. The changing of the aesthetic forms in which the ritual took and takes shape, by producing images of the community gathered, outlines an aesthetic realization of ‘imagined communities.’ This outline will be examined with reference to Benedict Anderson’s theory on the origin and spread of nationalism. |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-01002002 |