Form of nationalism which raises the nation to the status of numen or divinity
National mysticism (German:Nationalmystik) ormystical nationalism is a form ofnationalism that elevates the nation to the status ofnumen ordivinity. Its best-known instance isGermanic mysticism, which gave rise tooccultism under theThird Reich. The idea of the nation as a divine entity was presented byJohann Gottlieb Fichte.[1] National mysticism is closely related toRomantic nationalism,[citation needed] but goes beyond the expounding of romantic sentiment, to a mystical veneration of the nation as a transcendent truth. It often intersects withethnic nationalism bypseudohistorical assertions about the origins of a given ethnicity.[2]
National mysticism is encountered in many forms of nationalism other than Germanic orNazi mysticism and expresses itself in the use ofoccult,pseudoscientific, or pseudohistorical beliefs to support nationalistic claims, often involving unrealistic notions of the antiquity of a nation or anynational myth defended as "true" by pseudo-scholarly means.[3][4]
Claims of interplanetary travel, possible existence of in-vitro fertilization and genetic engineering by ancient Indians (102nd Indian Science Congress)[8]
^Stone, Dan (2017), Pendas, Devin O.; Roseman, Mark; Wetzell, Richard F. (eds.),"Race Science, Race Mysticism, and the Racial State",Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany, Publications of the German Historical Institute, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 176–196,ISBN978-1-107-16545-8, retrieved2024-10-20
^Stone, Dan (2017), Pendas, Devin O.; Roseman, Mark; Wetzell, Richard F. (eds.),"Race Science, Race Mysticism, and the Racial State",Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany, Publications of the German Historical Institute, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 176–196,ISBN978-1-107-16545-8, retrieved2024-10-20
