Graced Life After All? Terrorism and Theology on July 22, 2011
On the afternoon of July 22, 2011, a white Norwegian killed seventy-seven people in and around Oslo. A majority of those killed where Social Democratic youth, camping on the island of Utøya. Dressed as a Norwegian policeman, Anders Behring Breivik took the ferry over to the island and shot sixty-nin...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2015]
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Dialog
Jahr: 2015, Band: 54, Heft: 3, Seiten: 249-259 |
| RelBib Classification: | AZ Neue Religionen BD Alteuropäische Religionen CA Christentum KBE Nordeuropa; Skandinavien NBE Anthropologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
22 July 2011
B Terrorism B Grace B Norway B Norse Mythology B radical nationalism B Paganism B Anders Behring Breivik |
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| Zusammenfassung: | On the afternoon of July 22, 2011, a white Norwegian killed seventy-seven people in and around Oslo. A majority of those killed where Social Democratic youth, camping on the island of Utøya. Dressed as a Norwegian policeman, Anders Behring Breivik took the ferry over to the island and shot sixty-nine children with a pistol and a semi-automatic gun. The weapons were carved with Rune names and dedicated to Thor and Odin, the war gods in Norse mythology. About ninety minutes before the attacks, Breivik had published a 1,500-page manifesto on the Internet, urging radical nationalists in Europe to defend Christianity by fighting back Islamic migration, multiculturalism, and feminism. I propose to analyze how a new project linking Christian and pagan was launched through the Oslo massacres. I also make a distinction between the sacrificial aspects of a bloody massacre, and the non-bloody acts of love that manifested among surviving youth at Utøya, and ask if these contrary acts express, or at least involve, two radically different ways of doing religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-6385 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Dialog
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/dial.12186 |