Sacralization of History in Times of Crises : Modern Eastern Europe /
This book explores the sacralization of history with a focus on modern Eastern Europe where the erasure of Soviet traditions has triggered a search for specific "usable pasts". It discusses the importance of sacralization in memory and identity-building politics and the complex interplay b...
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1. The Sacralization of History in Modern Eastern Europe : Introductory Remarks
Section I Memory Politics: Uses and Abuses of the Sacred --
2. Remembering Religious Dissent through Its Martyrs
3. The (Ab)use of Orthodox Marian Iconography in the Holodomor Visual Culture in Pre-Maidan Ukraine
4. "Holier Than Thou?" Discourses of Orthodox Interdenominational Ecclesiastical Historical Politics in Ukraine at the Time of the Ukrainian Autocephaly Process
5. The "Lot of the Mother of God" : Imperial Mystique and the Language of Sovereignty in Modern Georgian Political Thought
6. Orthodoxizing History, Sacralizing the State, Legitimizing an Autocrat
Section II Staging Martyrdom --
7. Between States: Macedonia as a Contested Terra Sancta (1878-2023)
8. Churches and Sacralization of Euromaidan Protest in Ukraine from a Post-Secular Perspective
9. Martyrdom and Glory : Sacralization of Memory Practices in Modern Poland
10. "This Is a Sacred Legend That No One Must Touch" : Narratives of Martyrdom and the Sacralization of History of World War II in Contemporary Russia
11. Passion According to Nationalists
Section III Narrating Paganism --
12. "Nacjopoganie"? The Sacralization of the Pre-Christian Past as Identity Politics in Modern Polish Paganism
13. Resacralizing Hungarianness : Pseudo-History, Ethno-paganism, and High Politics
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14. Heroes and Saints : The Sacralization of History in Contemporary Eastern Europe
15. The Sacred Power of History : The Useful Past and the Politics of Memory in Eastern Europe
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Budapest New York
Central European University Press,
[2025]
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This book explores the sacralization of history with a focus on modern Eastern Europe where the erasure of Soviet traditions has triggered a search for specific "usable pasts". It discusses the importance of sacralization in memory and identity-building politics and the complex interplay between religion, history, and identity, particularly within the context of crises and conflict situations, by showing the historical roots of these processes. The contributors seek to identify the political, societal and religious actors promoting the sacralization of history. They consider which networks promote sacralized visions of history and who is excluded from the sacralized community of national belonging. They also explore which historical topics seem best suited for the sacralization of history and question what happens to the rituals, objects, or spaces, formerly regarded as sacral: are they profaned, neglected, or re-inscribed by new national histories, and is there a religious language of national history? These are the major questions of this book.
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