Sacral States: the Politics of Worship, Religious and Secular

Authors
Publication date 2019
Host editors
  • J.K. Helgason
  • M. Dović
Book title Great Immortality
Book subtitle Studies on European cultural sainthood
ISBN
  • 9789004364295
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9789004395138
Series National Cultuvation of Culture
Pages (from-to) 15-27
Number of pages 13
Publisher Leiden: Brill
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES)
Abstract The first chapter investigates the overlap between cultural sanctity and other forms of political worship, as reflected upon in a tradition from Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Edmund Burke to Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. The importance of Carlyle’s Of Heroes and Hero-Worship is highlighted, introducing as it did the Romantic artist as an inspired, visionary, and charismatic authority figure.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004395138_003
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