Ideology, Memory and Religion in Post-Communist East Central Europe: A Comparative Study Focused on Post-Holocaust
Post-communist East-Central Europe is witnessing a clash of memories focused on its recent past. Whereas Western memory is constructed around the “politics of regret” and responsibility-assumption vis-à-vis the Holocaust, Eastern memory focuses to a large extent on responsibility-attribution for the...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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[2016]
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Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
Year: 2016, Volume: 15, Issue: 44, Pages: 52-110 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Post-communism
/ Ideology
/ Religion
/ Collective memory
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy KBK Europe (East) |
Further subjects: | B
Holocaust
B Double Genocide B Competitive Martyrdom B Antisemitism B Holocaust Obfuscation B Judeo-Communism B Crimes against humanity B Genocide B Prague Declaration |
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Summary: | Post-communist East-Central Europe is witnessing a clash of memories focused on its recent past. Whereas Western memory is constructed around the “politics of regret” and responsibility-assumption vis-à-vis the Holocaust, Eastern memory focuses to a large extent on responsibility-attribution for the trauma of communist rule. These are comparable traumatic experiences, but due to different “cognitive mapping” and different mnemonic social frameworks, Eastern memory has produced a post-mnemonic framework that allows for a creeping justification of interwar Radical Right ideologies; for the transmogrification some of their standard-bearers into anti-communist heroes and martyrs; and the obfuscation World War II history. In some countries, religion and its past representatives are used for the same purpose. |
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ISSN: | 1583-0039 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of religions and ideologies
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