Ulrike Brunotte has published a new book: ‘Helden des Todes. Studien zur Religion, Ästhetik und Politik moderner Männlichkeit’ (Heroes of Death. Studies in the Religion, Aesthetic and Politics of Modern Masculinity). The book analyses the entanglement of religion and masculinity in modernity and reflects on its transformations and its long durée.
The chapters combine analyses of “the revival of figure of the martyr”, “figures and discourses of enthusiastic dying/sacrifice in war”, “the role of gender and violence in the formation of fundamentalist and neo-Islamite networks”, “male-bonding, ritual and Erlebnis” or “the figure of the soldier in modern American war movies” and “mythic narratives and ritual patterns of becoming a hero”, “Antisemitism and Homophobia” etc.
