What is it about?
This study is about how the Romanian Legionary Movement had sacralized politics and developed an aesthetics of violence in its strive to "redeem" the nation.
Featured Image
Why is it important?
The paper sheds light on how religion and theological concepts can be put in the service of politics in order to justify violence.
Perspectives
From my own, auctorial, perspective, this study's importance resides in the notion of "thanatic ultra-nationalism" which I advance in order to make sense of the Romanian Iron Guard's worldview centred on death, martyrs, and the cult of its fallen.
Dr. Mihai Stelian Rusu
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
Read the Original
This page is a summary of: The Sacralization of Martyric Death in Romanian Legionary Movement: Self-sacrificial Patriotism, Vicarious Atonement, and Thanatic Nationalism, Politics Religion & Ideology, July 2016, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2016.1232196.
You can read the full text:
Contributors
The following have contributed to this page
