Resacralizing Hungarianness: Pseudo-History, Ethno-paganism, and High Politics
Abstrak
The chapter introduces the modes of sacralization of the past revived in Hungary after the fall of the Iron Curtain. The emergence of contemporary reinterpretation and resacralization of history under communist rule was inherently rooted in the politics of memory. As a result, the pseudo-historical concepts blooming in interwar Hungary were automatically revived in the 1990s. Moreover, as a result of the Trianon trauma, the feeling of catastrophe has caused a shift in focus from the present to the sacralized Hungarian prehistory as a foundation for collective identity building. Throughout this chapter, sacralization of the past is presented as permeating banal nationalism and the broad layers of popular culture, and as providing the ideological foundation of contemporary paganism in Hungary as a whole.
Penulis (1)
István Povedák
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2025
- Bahasa
- en
- Sumber Database
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- DOI
- 10.5117/9789048570171_ch13
- Akses
- Open Access ✓