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| Title: | A Dangerous Form of Belief: An Analysis of Alfred Rosenberg's Mythus of the Twentieth Century as an Example of a Modern Form of Religion |
| Authors: | Pauling, Blaine |
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| Keywords: | Religion
Nazism |
| Issue Date: | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | Religious Studies Master's Essays;2005.1 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines the thought of the Nazi ideologist Alfred Rosenberg as it is contained in his book, The Mythus of the Twentieth Century. I examine the spiritualized racism he describes in the Mythus as a distinctly modern form of religion. I do this by analyzing it according to three categories that I believe reflect the form of the modern consciousness: scientific naturalism, the culture of authenticity and self-conscious
narrative epistemology. I argue that although the tribalist ground of this religiosity is pre-modern in origin, it is nevertheless modern in its form. Rosenberg articulates and
understands his racist religion of the blood in a form that reflects the three categories that I take to be representative of modern consciousness. I conclude with a discussion of how
this form of religion or ‘spirituality’ is characteristic of modernity. |
| Description: | Religious Studies Master's Essay 2005 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1974/229 |
| Appears in Collections: | Religious Studies Graduate Theses
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