Beyond Confession? 'Political Religion' and Ideological Incorrectness in the Study of Nazism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4299736 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Wennberg (Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 148-158 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/rec3.12100 |
| OpenAlex | W1557394995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
Holocaust studies have seen the rise of 'political religion' as part of a 'confessional turn'. To account for the fact that Nazism experienced widespread support from the German population, 'ideology' was replaced with the broader and culturally more inclusive term 'religion'. This article examines the mechanisms behind the rise of 'political religion' as well as the factors behind its subsequent decline. It argues that 'political religion', despite its culturally inclusive label, persists in connoting dogma and indoctrination. In this respect, the concept resembles rather than differs from the abandoned term 'ideology'. Finally, the article draws from research on the Nazi principle of transgression and presents this principle as a form of 'ideological incorrectness'. The concept of 'ideological incorrectness' should be seen as a move beyond belief simply understood as confession and, thus, a move beyond the conceptual constraints of 'political religion
Confessional · Criminology · Epistemology · German · Ideology · Indoctrination · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · European history and politics · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Social Psychology
The Holy Reich
Modernism and Fascism
Germans, Jews, and Antisemites
A Single Communal Faith
Theological Incorrectness
Fascism, totalitarianism and political religion
Nazism and the revival of political religion theory
Cloister or cluster? The implications of Emilio Gentile’s ecumenical theory of political religion for the study of extremism
Fantasies about the Jews
Political Religion’ and the Totalitarian Departures of Inter-war Europe
Nazism and Christianity
God, not Caesar
The Primacy of Culture
The Concepts of ‘Religion’, ‘Political Religion’ and the Study of Nazism
Violence, Volksgemeinschaft and Empire
Nazism as a Secular Religion 1
Writing history, writing trauma
The status of ideology in the return of political religion theory
Between Sacred and the Profane
Culture and Ideology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |