Africa is a space for imagining. From a land of slaves with different attributes to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to a “country” beset by maladies, the African continent has been and remains a repository …
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Jon Beltz, Of God and Gods: Assmann on Religious Violence
Violence and its perpetrators play an important part in a number of the books in the Mosse series. Jan Assmann’s Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism is no exception. …
Jon Beltz, Of God and Gods: Egyptology in Modern European Thought
As mentioned in my previous post on Jan Assmann’s book Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, it may seem unusual to find such a book in a publication series devoted …
Jon Beltz, Assmann’s Of God and Gods: An Overview
At first glance, Egyptologist Jan Assmann’s book Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism seems like an unlikely candidate for inclusion in the George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Political Rallies
Political Rallies: Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses On August 21, 1980, Ronald Reagan, then mere months from winning the presidency, uttered one of his most famous (and infamous) lines of that election year. Speaking to …