War and National Renewal: Civil Religion and Blood Sacrifice in American Culture
Wars are often associated with a rhetoric of renewal or new beginnings. This essay explores this claim through the lens of civil religion and a recent book by Carolyn Marvin and David Ingle, Blood Sacrifice and the Nation, which combines Emile Durkheim with Réné Girard in proposing that modern natio...
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European Association for American Studies
2012-04-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/9672 |
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