National_mysticism

National mysticism

National mysticism

Form of nationalism which raises the nation to the status of numen or divinity

National mysticism (German Nationalmystik) or mystical nationalism is a form of nationalism which raises the nation to the status of numen or divinity. Its best known instance is Germanic mysticism, which gave rise to occultism under the Third Reich. The idea of the nation as a divine entity was presented by Johann Gottlieb Fichte.[citation needed] National mysticism is closely related to Romantic nationalism,[citation needed] but goes beyond the expounding of romantic sentiment, to a mystical veneration of the nation as a transcendent truth. It often intersects with ethnic nationalism by pseudohistorical assertions about the origins of a given ethnicity.[citation needed]

National mysticism is encountered in many nationalisms other than Germanic or Nazi mysticism and expresses itself in the use of occult, pseudoscientific, or pseudohistorical beliefs to back up nationalistic claims, often involving unrealistic notions of the antiquity of a nation (antiquity frenzy) or any national myth defended as "true" by pseudo-scholarly means.[citation needed]

Notable examples

See also

References

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    e.g. Alexander Sokurow, www.faz.net; see also Arkaim.
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    Moshe Sharon, Studies in Modern Religions and Religious Movements and the Babi-Baha'i (2004), p. 77.
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    Tierney, Michael (1937). "A Prophet of Mystic Nationalism: A.E." Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review. 26 (104): 568–580. ISSN 0039-3495. JSTOR 30097473.
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