Beyond “Making Poland Great Again.” Nostalgia in Polish Populist and Non‐populist Discourses1
Nostalgia can be triggered not only by personal recollections but also by exposure to narratives or images evoking desirable pasts, more or less fictional, and inducing feelings of longing for them. We analyze the institutional and semiotic machinery involved in the cultural construction of nostalgia in Poland and its role in generating sentiments that
Marta Kotwas, Jan Kubik
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Karl Lueger and the Reichspost: Construction of a Cult of Personality
This article contributes to the body of research on fin‐de‐siècle Viennese and Austrian history, as well as the history of ideas and press history. It expands on the scholarship by focusing on one newspaper — the Catholic‐conservative Reichspost (affiliated with the Christian Social Party) — to analyse how it perpetuated the cult of personality ...
Chris O'Neill
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Emancipating ethics: an autonomist reading of Islamic forms of life in Russia
Abstract This article advances a framework aimed at capturing the political life of ethical intensity by putting autonomist theory in resonance with ethnographic material pertaining to quietist Muslim milieus in post‐Soviet Russia. The emancipatory and prefigurative potential of collective projects of self‐legislation – in this case, ‘halal living ...
Matteo Benussi
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The emerging role of the EU as a primary normative actor in the EU Area of Criminal Justice
Abstract This article explores the role and justifications for EU action in the EU Area of Criminal Justice, also relying on a comparison with the justifications for EU action in the internal market. It distinguishes between a role for the EU as a subsidiary policy actor and as a primary policy actor.
Irene Wieczorek
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Explaining Unfavorable Attitudes Toward Religious Out‐Groups Among Three Major Religions
Abstract Considering intensifying sectarian conflicts in recent years and increasing interreligious violence around the globe, there is a need to further our understanding of negative attitudes toward religious out‐groups. To investigate the driving factors behind these negative attitudes among members of the three major Abrahamic religions, I employ ...
Eylem Kanol
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Political messianism and democracy: On possibility of political self-transformation of democracy [PDF]
The article deals with the relation of political messianism to ongoing debate on the crisis of democracy. The conceptual framework of political messianism is the convenient analytical tool because it makes the concept of crisis a starting point ...
Pavićević Đorđe
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Entangled Stories: The Red Jews in Premodern Yiddish and German Apocalyptic Lore [PDF]
“Far, far away from our areas, somewhere beyond the Mountains of Darkness, on the other side of the Sambatyon River…there lives a nation known as the Red Jews.” The Red Jews are best known from classic Yiddish writing, most notably from Mendele's Kitser ...
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Messianica ratio. Affinities and Differences in Cohen’s and Benjamin's Messianic Rationalism
In my paper, I intend firmly to criticize Taubes' interpretation of Benjamin's Theology as a modern form of Gnosticism (Benjamin as a modern Marcionit). In a positive way, I sustain rather the thesis that Benjamin's Messianism is in close connection with
Fabrizio Desideri
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Derrida and the Danger of Religion [PDF]
This paper argues that Jacques Derrida provides a compelling rebuttal to a secularism that seeks to exclude religion from the public sphere.
Newheiser, David
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Augustine for the Ages: The Political Implications of Hope
Religious Studies Review, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 341-343, September 2023.
Matthew H. Young
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