The status of ideology in the return of political religion theory

Shorten, Richard

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“…Cohn (1970). Siehe Voegelin (1987Voegelin ( ), (1993 und Gentile (2000); für eine informative Diskussion neuer Ansätze siehe auch Shorten (2007), 163-187. Siehe dazu ausführlich Szakolczai (2003).…”

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Politik, Religion und Markt: Die Rückkehr der Religion als Anfrage an den politisch-philosophischen Diskurs der Moderne

Guggenberger¹,

Regensburger²,

Stöckl³

2009

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Politik, Religion und Markt: Die Rückkehr der Religion als Anfrage an den politisch-philosophischen Diskurs der Moderne

Guggenberger¹,

Regensburger²,

Stöckl³

2009

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“…Previous studies have either discussed the genealogy of ‘political religion’ in historiography (Shorten ; Wennberg forthcoming ) or, more generally, debated empirically whether National Socialism was in fact a ‘political religion’ (Kurtz ). The position of ‘political religion’, understood as either ‘ideology’ or ‘culture’, however, is less covered in these studies.…”

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Beyond Confession? ‘Political Religion’ and Ideological Incorrectness in the Study of Nazism

Wennberg

2014

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Holocaust studies have seen the rise of 'political religion' as part of a 'confessional turn'. To account for the fact that Nazism experienced widespread support from the German population, 'ideology' was replaced with the broader and culturally more inclusive term 'religion'. This article examines the mechanisms behind the rise of 'political religion' as well as the factors behind its subsequent decline. It argues that 'political religion', despite its culturally inclusive label, persists in connoting dogma and indoctrination. In this respect, the concept resembles rather than differs from the abandoned term 'ideology'. Finally, the article draws from research on the Nazi principle of transgression and presents this principle as a form of 'ideological incorrectness'. The concept of 'ideological incorrectness' should be seen as a move beyond belief simply understood as confession and, thus, a move beyond the conceptual constraints of 'political religion'.

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“…1-349).4 Even then, it should be noted, descriptive claims of this sort can be badly handled. Gray's category mistake, for instance, is to suppose that similar things are identical because they have a single property in common, a supposition that leads him to treat Christianity and modern science as equivalent in many other respects because they share in some conception of progress.5 For a developed account of that interpretation of political religion, seeShorten (2007).…”

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Political Theology, Political Religion and Secularisation

Shorten

2010

Political Studies Review

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Recent work on the connection between religion and politics has often aligned itself with one of two intellectual traditions. On the one hand there is an expanding body of thought on the problem of the 'theological-political'. On the other, various discourses of 'political religion' amount to a different angle of approach to similar issues. The exact relation between the two orientations has seldom been spelled out. Nevertheless, it is intriguing for a number of reasons. The disjunction between the two is, in the foremost sense, disciplinary in character. The remit of the first is typically that of political philosophy, while the second body of work is largely historiographical. More prosaically, the two traditions are also readily identifiable with the 'big names' with whom they are invariably associated; Leo Strauss might just as well be a shorthand for political theology, and Eric Voegelin (albeit less well known) occupies a similar place in the tradition of political religion theory.To begin to establish that relation is therefore the primary intention of this short review article. The appearance, over the past few years, of a substantial set of monographs would seem an appropriate occasion on which to do so.The argument presented below is therefore intended as a clearing exercise, and it proceeds as follows. First of all, the intended meanings of the two principal terms are discussed, together with the conceptual architectures that support them.At the same time an attempt is made to indicate the kinds of story that the two approaches typically have to tell about modern political experience. In the second section, a brief dialogue is staged between them in order to bring into view an otherwise obscured, common intellectual source.That source is a curious one. European social and political thought in the mid-twentieth century produced a body of ideas which rooted totalitarian politics, in particular, in the relationship between modernity and the declining social importance of religious belief. Those ideas are the mainstay of the texts reviewed here (Burleigh

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The status of ideology in the return of political religion theory

Cited by 22 publications

References 10 publications

Politik, Religion und Markt: Die Rückkehr der Religion als Anfrage an den politisch-philosophischen Diskurs der Moderne

Politik, Religion und Markt: Die Rückkehr der Religion als Anfrage an den politisch-philosophischen Diskurs der Moderne

Beyond Confession? ‘Political Religion’ and Ideological Incorrectness in the Study of Nazism

Political Theology, Political Religion and Secularisation

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