10 research outputs found
Histoire des liturgies chrétiennes de la mort et des funérailles. By Philippe Rouillard. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 1999. 216 pp. 140 francs.
The End of Political Islam? A Comparative Analysis of Religious Parties in the Muslim Democracy of Indonesia
The Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Medjugorje: The convergence of Croation nationalism on her apparitions
This article concerns the alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary in one of the most popular, 'active' apparitional sites in the world: Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The connection between nationalist discourse and apparitions has often been observed and noted in the literature on nationalism; however, the examples of this connection are scattered in the literature and the question why the apparitional phenomenon so easily lends itself to co-option into nationalist discourse has never been addressed. This article explores this question by showing that what binds the two phenomena together is the idea of 'chosenness' and 'specialness', which in turn can be theoretically linked to discussions about national election in the literature on nationalism. This article illustrates the convergence of nationalist and apparitional discourses by drawing on a selected number of examples of how the apparitions in Medjugorje have been appropriated by Croatian nationalist discourse