Procession as a Literary Motif: The Intersection of Religious and National Symbolism in Italian Narrative (Nineteenth–Twentieth Centuries)
National imagery developed as a secular substitute for religion, and in modern society, there has been a ‘transfer’ of sacredness from religion to politics. This paper focuses on Italy, where, despite the legal separation of church and state, the ‘sacral’ national apparatus still owes a considerable...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2017, Volume: 10, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 107-146 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Italy
/ National consciousness
/ Church
/ Procession
/ Civil religion
/ Political identity
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RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion KBJ Italy ZC Politics in general |
Further subjects: | B
Civil Religion
procession
literature
disorder / order
nation
symbols
Italy
Catholicism
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