Sacralization of History in Times of Crises

Modern Eastern Europe

AvLiliya Berezhnaya,Heidi Hein-Kirchner

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Crisis, Conflict and Security in Central and Eastern Europe - CEU Press

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Beskrivning

This book explores the sacralization of history with a focus on modern Eastern Europe where the erasure of Soviet traditions has triggered a search for specific "usable pasts". It discusses the importance of sacralization in memory and identity-building politics and the complex interplay between religion, history, and identity, particularly within the context of crises and conflict situations, by showing the historical roots of these processes.The contributors seek to identify the political, societal and religious actors promoting the sacralization of history. They consider which networks promote sacralized visions of history and who is excluded from the sacralized community of national belonging. They also explore which historical topics seem best suited for the sacralization of history and question what happens to the rituals, objects, or spaces, formerly regarded as sacral: are they profaned, neglected, or re-inscribed by new national histories, and is there a religious language of national history? These are the major questions of this book.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt:930 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Crisis, Conflict and Security in Central and Eastern Europe - CEU Press
Antal sidor:418
Förlag:Pallas Publications
ISBN:9789048570171

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Liliya Berezhnaya is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven.Heidi Hein-Kircher is director of the Martin Opitz Library (Herne) and professor at Ruhr-University Bochum.

Innehållsförteckning

1 The Sacralization of History in Modern Eastern Europe: Introductory Remarks 2 Remembering Religious Dissent Through Its Martyrs: The Orthodox Church and the Appropriation of Historical Memory in Post-Socialist Romania 3 The (Ab)use of Orthodox Marian Iconography in the Holodomor Visual Culture in Pre-Maidan Ukraine 4 "Holier Than Thou?" Discourses of Orthodox Interdenominational Ecclesiastical Historical Politics in Ukraine at the Time of the Ukrainian Autocephaly Process 5 "The Lot of the Mother of God": Imperial Mystique and the Language of Soveriegnty in Modern Georgian Political Thought 6 Orthodoxizing History, Sacralizing the State, Legitimizing an Autocrat: The Russian Past in Russia - My History Parks 7 Between States: Macedonia as a Contested Terra Sancta |(1878-2023) 8 Churches and Sacralization of Euromaidan Protest in Ukraine From a Post-Secular Perspective 9 Martyrdom and Glory: Sacralization of Memory Practices in Modern Poland 10 "This Is a Sacred Legend that No One Must Touch": Narratives of Martyrdom and the Sacralization of History of World War II in Contemporary Russia 11 Passion According to Nationalists: Martyrs for Faith and the Sacralization of History in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire and in Post-Soviet Estonia 12 "Nacjopoganie?" The Sacralization of the Pre-Christian Past as Identity Politics in Modern Polish Paganism 13 Re-sacralizing Hungarianness: Pseudo-History, Ethno-paganism and High Politics 14 Heroes and Saints: the Sacralization of History in Contemporary Easter Europe 15 The Sacred Power of History: The Useful Past and Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe