Nordic Ideology between Religion and Scholarship

283 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The articles of this volume treat the expansion of the Nordic ideology in the first half of the twentieth century. They concentrate on the amalgamation of scientific, religious and political features, which transformed the idea of the North into a mainstay of extreme nationalism. Lacking positive norms and values, the Nordic idea depended on the opposition against everything deemed un-Nordic. Völkisch Nordicism shared with conventional forms of nationalism the enmity with Judaism and Bolshevism and – to a lesser extent – with Anglo-Americanism and Catholicism. Beyond that, it constituted a mythological counter narrative that combined the idea of spiritual kinship with biological lineage, on Pagan as well as on Christian grounds.

• Reihe: Zivilisationen und Geschichte / Civilizations and History / Civilisations et Histoire
• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Theorie und Methoden Quellen
• ISBN: 9783631644874
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.08.2013
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Band herausgegeben von: Horst Junginger, Andreas Akerlund