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Anti-Semitism as a Civil Religion: Progressive Paradigms in the Anti-Semitic Construction of German National Identity

Anti-Semitism as a Civil Religion: Progressive Paradigms in the Anti-Semitic Construction of German National Identity

Marc Neugröschel
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781799834359|ISBN10: 1799834352|EISBN13: 9781799834366
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3435-9.ch025
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Neugröschel, Marc. "Anti-Semitism as a Civil Religion: Progressive Paradigms in the Anti-Semitic Construction of German National Identity." Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 499-513. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3435-9.ch025

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Neugröschel, M. (2021). Anti-Semitism as a Civil Religion: Progressive Paradigms in the Anti-Semitic Construction of German National Identity. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society (pp. 499-513). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3435-9.ch025

Chicago

Neugröschel, Marc. "Anti-Semitism as a Civil Religion: Progressive Paradigms in the Anti-Semitic Construction of German National Identity." In Research Anthology on Religious Impacts on Society, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 499-513. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-3435-9.ch025

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Abstract

This chapter portrays the 19th century political ideology of anti-Semitism as a form of civil religion that promoted the ideation of a German national society. In contrast to its interpretation as a right-wing reactionary protest against modernity, antisemitism, it will be argued, adapted the conceptualization of collective identity to the premises of a progressive worldview, defining German society in terms of the modern paradigms of nationalism, scientism and anti-transcendentalism. Evidence for this assertion will be elicited from texts by German anti-Semitic writers and analyzed with the aid of contemporary theories and thinkers.

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