Hallowed Land in the Theory and Practice of Modern Nationalism

Bibliographic Data

ID20052919
AuthorsHedva Ben-Israel, Hedva Ben‐Israel (corresponding author)
Year1998
Pages278-294
Publication date1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueSacred Space : Shrine, City, Land (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-14084-8_17
OpenAlexW2506805550
ISBN9781349140848
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

The Holy Land, Holy Russia, Holy Ireland, the Promised Land of America. How did lands become holy in the vocabulary of nationalism? Rhetoric, as we know, constitutes power. We at once suspect manipulation. The problem is whether this potential of land to be regarded as holy in the discourse of nationalism is embedded in the structure of the concept of nationalism, or emanates from the strategies of states, churches or national movements, or from other sources such as human nature.KeywordsFrench RevolutionItalian IrredentismPolitical PrincipleNational MovementReligious SymbolThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves

Linguistics · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Rhetoric · Sociology · Suspect · Vocabulary · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Political Conflict and Governance · Soviet and Russian History