• Source: National mysticism

      • National mysticism (German: Nationalmystik) or mystical nationalism is a form of nationalism that elevates the nation to the status of numen or divinity. Its best-known instance is Germanic mysticism, which gave rise to occultism under the Third Reich. The idea of the nation as a divine entity was presented by Johann Gottlieb Fichte. National mysticism is closely related to Romantic nationalism, but goes beyond the expounding of romantic sentiment, to a mystical veneration of the nation as a transcendent truth. It often intersects with ethnic nationalism by pseudohistorical assertions about the origins of a given ethnicity.
      National mysticism is encountered in many forms of nationalism other than Germanic or Nazi mysticism and expresses itself in the use of occult, pseudoscientific, or pseudohistorical beliefs to support nationalistic claims, often involving unrealistic notions of the antiquity of a nation (antiquity frenzy) or any national myth defended as "true" by pseudo-scholarly means.


      Notable examples



      Narratives on the origin of the Albanians in Albanian nationalism
      American Manifest Destiny
      Some currents of Armenian nationalism (see Armenia, Subartu and Sumer)
      Belgians (and even Benelux) descended from the Kingdom of the Franks
      British Israelism
      Some branches of revisionist history theories of Bulgarians and Bulgaria (i.e. "Thracomania") and Macedonian nationalist history theories
      Croatian Illyrian movement
      Greek Epsilonism
      The Indigenous Aryans hypothesis in Hindu nationalism
      Hoteps among African-Americans
      Claims of interplanetary travel, possible existence of in-vitro fertilization and genetic engineering by ancient Indians (102nd Indian Science Congress)
      Hungarian Holy Crown Doctrine
      Indonesian nationalism
      Irish author George William Russell has been described as a "prophet of mystic nationalism"
      State Shinto in Japan prior to the forced secularization following World War II
      Jews as the chosen people in Judaism
      Juche in North Korea and Ilminism in South Korea
      Kurdish nationalists often make the claim that they are the descendants of the Medes
      Lithuanian fictional Rome-descended dynasty of Palemonids
      Mormon belief of Israelite descent for Native Americans
      Philippine Destiny
      Polish Sarmatism and later Christ of Europe concept
      Romanian protochronism and Dacianism
      In a 2004 article, David Gelernter described Ronald Reagan as a "mystic nationalist"
      Currents of Russian nationalism
      The Kosovo Myth in Serbian nationalism
      The Spain destiny in Falangism
      Swedish Gothicism
      Currents of Tamil nationalism (as in Devaneya Pavanar)
      The Sun Language Theory and Turkish History Thesis in Pan-Turkism and Turkish nationalism
      Kabbalistic currents in religious Zionism


      See also


      National myth
      Christian mysticism
      Religion in national symbols


      References

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