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Holocaust remembrance as 'civil religion': the case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000)

Allwork, L. (2015) Holocaust remembrance as 'civil religion': the case of the Stockholm Declaration (2000). In: Popescu, D. I. and Schult, T. (eds.) Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 288-304.

Item Type: Book Section
Abstract: This chapter will use Emilo Gentile’s re-thinking of the sacralisation of politics and his definition and application of civil religion in order to explore the extent to which the accelerated institutionalisation of the collective remembrance of the Holocaust, often in relation to broader Nazi era atrocities, can be perceived as a form of civil religion for liberal, Westernising states, particularly but not exclusively in Europe in the 1990s and 2000s.
Subjects: D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II (1939-1945) > D804.3 Holocaust
Creators: Allwork, Larissa
Editors: Popescu, Diana I and Schult, Tanja
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Research Centre > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing
Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing
Date: July 2015
Date Type: Publication
Page Range: pp. 288-304
Title of Book: Revisiting Holocaust Representation in the Post-Witness Era
Series Name: The Holocaust and its contexts
Place of Publication: Basingstoke
Number of Pages: 309
Language: English
ISBN: 9781137530417
Status: Published / Disseminated
Refereed: Yes
URI: http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/7725

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