Sacral States: the Politics of Worship, Religious and Secular
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| Publication date | 2019 |
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| Book title | Great Immortality |
| Book subtitle | Studies on European cultural sainthood |
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| Series | National Cultuvation of Culture |
| Pages (from-to) | 15-27 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Publisher | Leiden: Brill |
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| 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 |
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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004395138_003
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