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The Holy Land, Holy Russia, Holy Ireland, the Promised Land of America. How did lands become holy in the vocabulary of nationalism? Rhetoric, as we know, constitutes power. We at once suspect manipulation. The problem is whether this potential of land to be regarded as holy in the discourse of nationalism is embedded in the structure of the concept of nationalism, or emanates from the strategies of states, churches or national movements, or from other sources such as human nature.
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Ben-Israel, H. (1998). Hallowed Land in the Theory and Practice of Modern Nationalism. In: Kedar, B.Z., Werblowsky, R.J.Z. (eds) Sacred Space. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14084-8_17
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