TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scolari, Baldassare
AB  - Politician Aldo Moro was abducted and killed in 1978 by the terrorist organization Red Brigades. The media then stylized Moro as a «state martyr». The volume deals with the highly topical question concerning the performativity of this concept in the tension between democratic state and terrorism and reconstructs a crucial phase of post-war time policy in Italy on the basis of media sources on the Moro case. What performs a term from Christian antiquity within modern socio-political discourses? What changes has the term "martyr" undergone in European religious and cultural history? On the basis of these questions, the study opens up an interdisciplinary theoretical horizon to understand the role of religious motives in socio-political con-texts. It brings a central new dimension to the secularization debate, which sees secularization as a new configuration of politics and religion.
DO  - 10.5771/9783845299372
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210708_9783848757619_128
KW  - Religion
KW  - Politics
KW  - Media
KW  - Martyrdom
KW  - Secularization
KW  - Representation
KW  - Performativity
KW  - Aldo Moro
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/36a4afad-1f43-4f8e-b3b7-a11d40e3166c/9783848757619.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49929
PB  - Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
PP  - Baden-Baden
PY  - 2019
SN  - 9783848757619
TI  - State Martyr : Representation and Performativity of Political Violence
ER  - 
