عنوان

The Devil is Red:

شماره

LA122770

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

The Devil is Red:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Socialist Satanism in the Nineteenth Century

نام نخستين پديدآور

Per Faxneld

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

During the nineteenth century, socialists all over the Western world employed Satan as a symbol of the workers' emancipation from capitalist tyranny and the toppling of the Christian Church, which they perceived as a protector of this oppressive system. Starting with the English Romantics at the end of the eighteenth century, European radicals developed a discourse of symbolic Satanism, which was put to use by major names in socialism like Godwin, Proudhon, and Bakunin. This shock tactic became especially widespread in turn-of-the-century Sweden, and accordingly the article focuses on the many examples of explicit socialist Satanism in that country. They are contextualized by showing the parallels to, among other things, use of Lucifer as a positive symbol in the realm of alternative spirituality, specifically the Theosophical Society. A number of reasons for why Satan gained such popularity among socialists are suggested, and the sometimes blurry line separating the rhetoric of symbolic Satanism from actual religious writing is scrutinized. During the nineteenth century, socialists all over the Western world employed Satan as a symbol of the workers' emancipation from capitalist tyranny and the toppling of the Christian Church, which they perceived as a protector of this oppressive system. Starting with the English Romantics at the end of the eighteenth century, European radicals developed a discourse of symbolic Satanism, which was put to use by major names in socialism like Godwin, Proudhon, and Bakunin. This shock tactic became especially widespread in turn-of-the-century Sweden, and accordingly the article focuses on the many examples of explicit socialist Satanism in that country. They are contextualized by showing the parallels to, among other things, use of Lucifer as a positive symbol in the realm of alternative spirituality, specifically the Theosophical Society. A number of reasons for why Satan gained such popularity among socialists are suggested, and the sometimes blurry line separating the rhetoric of symbolic Satanism from actual religious writing is scrutinized.

تاريخ نشر

2013

توصيف ظاهري

528-558

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

60/5-6

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

anarchism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Romanticism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Satanism

اصطلاح موضوعی

socialism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sweden

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Per Faxneld

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15685276-12341294

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y