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Ideologies of War, Genocide & Terror 
Publications & Video: Volume II: C-F

Campbell, David

• Writing Security (Article)

Carpentier, Nico

• Strengthening Cultural War Studies

  Although each war has its own history, wars are built on similar ideological mappings. The series of events that compose a war appear to be highly elusive; but the core ideological models that structures war tend to be stable. Both sides present their violent practices as well-considered, unavoidable, and necessary. The construction of the Enemy is accompanied by the construction of the Self as antagonistic to the Enemy’s identity. Ironically, the identity of the Enemy as a constitutive outside is indispensable to the construction of the identity of the Self, as the evilness of the Enemy is a necessary condition for the articulation of the goodness of the Self.

Caverly, Matthew M.

• Nazi Militarism (Paper)

Chen, Zhou

• Violence as Sacred Sacrifice (essay)

Chirila, Alexander

• Creating the Idealized Nemesis: The Collective Psychology of the Red Scare

  The idealized nemesis, as constructed by the collective psychology of a nation, can take many forms, from the barbarous hordes storming the gate to the cunning opponent scheming across a global chessboard. Perhaps the most insidious of these nemeses is the enemy within. Characterized as a viral infection, the enemy within generates a range of psychological reactions on the national scale.

• Hermits and Healers: Contemporary Approaches to a Classic Spiritual Dichotomy (Video Lecture)

  Given at the international conference, “Religion in a Secular Society: Challenges and Perspectives,” June 19-20, 2017, Constanta, Romania.

• Pilgrim‐Tourists: Tourism and the Spiritual Experience (Paper)

  This paper examines the role of those who participate in the exchange facilitated by spiritual tourism, as well as the object of their exchange: the spiritual experience itself.

Cocks, Geoffrey

• The Body Politic: Hitler, Paranoia, and “the Jew” in Modern Germany

  Hitler’s fears and fantasies were complemented by a generalized crisis in Germany having to do with the vicissitudes of the ill and well modern body. It was the experience of illness across the populations of Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe that constituted a dual, dark link between the well and ill self of the modern era and Hitler’s paranoid project for extermination of a created enemy.

Conversi, Daniele

• Modernism and Nationalism (Paper)
• War and Nationalism (Article)

Crim, Brian E.

• Wernher von Braun’s “Rocket Team” and America’s Military-Industrial Complex (Essay)

  The story of Wernher von Braun and his rocket team’s harrowing escape from the collapsing Third Reich into the warm embrace of a former enemy is one of the more exciting and significant moments from the final days of World War II. This essay examines early intelligence assessments of Wernher von Braun’s rocket team, specifically those challenging the notion the captured Germans were the “best and the brightest.”

Delaney, Carol

• Sacrificial Heroics: The Story of Abraham and its Use in the Justification of War (Paper)

Demopoulos, Panayiotis

• Götterdämmerung: Suicide Music and the National Self as Enemy

  “What role did music play in the death-throes of the Reich? What did the orchestras of the Reich perform in the latter stages of the war? Examining dialogues from the bunker in the expiring days of the Reich, this essay will illuminate the use of music as means to support the darker and more sinister ideogram of self-punishment and purification.”

Denton-Borhaug, Kelly

• De-escalating U.S. War-culture: A Primer for Peace Advocates (Presentation)
   
• Review Essay of Stanley Hauerwas’s Book War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity (Review Essay)

  The sacrificial metaphor at the heart of citizenship, and inextricably tied to war, has incredible power, all the more so because most citizens are unconscious of its active impact in our lives. Most citizens are blithely unaware of the contradiction between their assumptions regarding “the separation of church and state”—and the deeply religious sacrificial war-culture that so profoundly shapes their understandings of citizenship and the nation.

• U.S. War Culture, Sacrifice & Salvation (Video)

  Lecture given at The 1st Annual IntelliGen Conference on Religion & Violence, April 11, 2015 at Moravian Theological Seminary.

Eckhart, Dietrich

• The Earth-Centered Jew Lacks a Soul (Book Excerpt)

Elshtain, Jean Bethke

• Identity, the State and Sacrifice

  “The Sovereign may bear a masculinized ‘face’ but the nation itself is feminized, a mother, a sweetheart, a lover. One can rightly speak, as Anderson does, of ‘political love, a love that retains the fraternal dimensions of medieval caritas,” but incorporates as well a maternalized loyalty symbolized domestically. The nation is home and home is mother. No more than one chooses one’s parents does one choose one’s country and this adds even greater force to the nature of political love. We fall in love early through language, ‘encountered at mother’s knees and parted with only at the grave,” and through this language ‘pasts are restored, fellowships are imagined, and futures dreamed.’”

Faust, Drew Gilpin

• Altars of Sacrifice: Confederate Women and the Narratives of War (Article)
• This Republic of Suffering (Lecture)

Feldman, Yael S.

• Dying for the Motherland: Orthodox Christianity and the Invention of “Isaac” as a Jewish Military Hero (Essay)

  The willingness to die for one’s country, be it a fatherland or motherland, seems to derive from a much older human ‘habit’ or ‘reflex’— the universal need to secure one’s well-being by appeasing the gods, or their human representatives (Nietzsche, Genealogy, 61). This appeasement began as a gift giving, or—at times of special duress—by giving up life itself, whether of oneself or of one’s loved ones.

Fornari, Franco

• The Psychoanalysis of War (Book Excerpts)

  War is a spectacular establishment of a general human situation whereby death assumes absolute value: the ideas for which we die have a right to truth, because death becomes a demonstrative process.

• The Psychoanalysis of War (Book Review)

  The spirit of sacrifice is intimately related to an ideology in the name of which one may sacrifice oneself. What is this “absolute and unconditional something” that would somehow justify the “establishment of a masochistic-sacrificial position?” The masochistic-sacrificial position (e.g., the role of a soldier) is idealized—becoming a kind of “supervalue”—because it is put into the service of “that absolute and unconditional something.”

Frank, Walter S.

• The Reality of Battle: First World War, 1914-1918 (Book Excerpts)

  “In the deeper shelters, old and battle-hardened troops shook their heads. The new recruits with big eyes and quivering bodies were watched with apprehension. Some turned green and began vomiting. Some began sobbing.”

Freud, Sigmund

• The Mechanism of Paranoia (Book Excerpt)

Fritz, Stephen G.

• ‘We are Trying… to Change the Face of the World’—Ideology and Motivation in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front: The View from Below (Paper)
   
• Frontsoldaten: The German Soldier in World War II (Book Excerpts)

  “To serve a Volksgemeinschaft, to believe in Hitler as the German Fuhrer—these were ideals pressed into the souls of German youth. ‘Our freedom was service’: this line from a Hitler Youth song reflected the ideal of devotion to the community—even to the point of death.”

Frčkoski, Ljubomir

• Restless Nationalism (Complete Book)

Fürst von Urach, Albrecht

• The Secret of Japan’s Strength (Booklet)