Between Sacred and the Profane
Holocaust Collaboration and 'Political Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4833728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Wennberg (Royal Holloway University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-35 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-01 |
| 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/rec3.12096 |
| OpenAlex | W1823003014 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This article interprets the genealogy of the concept of 'political religion' in Holocaust research from the fundamental division between 'sacred' and 'profane' understandings of traditional religions. It argues that 'political religion' is understood as 'sacred' and unique when associated with Nazism, whilst its application to European fascism more generally has had a character of understanding religion as comparative and measureable from a 'profane' set of criteria. Yet, in light of research on Nazi ideology and fascist collaboration in the Holocaust, which effectively imply an interaction between Nazi and fascist agencies, the article finds that 'political religion' needs a re-theorization that can accommodate for the integration between the sacred and the profane
Aesthetics · Ideology · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Holocaust · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
Hitler's willing executioners
The varieties of religious experience
Modernism and Fascism
Memory, History, and the Extermination of the Jews of Europe
National socialism as a political religion
Fascism, totalitarianism and political religion
National socialism as a political religion
The Spirit of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA)
Fantasies about the Jews
Political Religion’ and the Totalitarian Departures of Inter-war Europe
Hitler's Monsters
Fascism as Political Religion
The Primacy of Culture
The Concepts of ‘Religion’, ‘Political Religion’ and the Study of Nazism
L'Opium des Intellectuels
Responses to Nazism in Britain, 1933–1939
Narrative Form and Historical Sensation
Writing history, writing trauma
Totalitarian Religions
Structure and Agency in the Holocaust
Success, Truth, and Modernism in Holocaust Historiography
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |