@article{621f926c032844aa9fa7eb8d021a26b1,
title = "{\textquoteleft}Our diggers would turn in their graves{\textquoteright}: nostalgia and civil religion in Australia{\textquoteright}s far-right",
abstract = "Commemorating wars plays an important role in reinforcing a sense of national identity in many countries. Bellah{\textquoteright}s (1967) work on civil religion argues that such commemorations have a quasi-sacred character and can have cohesive-inclusive and coercive-exclusive effects. This article examines how references to the Australian New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) are incorporated into far-right messaging online where the Anzac legend is typically discussed with the purpose of conveying a nostalgic image of a narrowly defined, exclusionary national identity. Unconditional glorification of Anzac is used as a benchmark of acceptance, often linked to anti-Muslim messaging and sometimes embedded in a White supremacy agenda. The official Anzac commemorations remain mute to far-right attempts to use Anzac for their own political mobilisation.",
keywords = "Anzac, Australia, civil religion, commemoration of wars, far-right, national identity",
author = "Mario Peucker and Peter Lentini and Debra Smith and Muhammad Iqbal",
note = "Funding Information: The empirical data used for the analysis in this article were collected as part of a larger research study conducted by Peucker, Smith and Iqbal in 2017–2018, which was supported by funding from the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victorian State Government (Australia). Lentini{\textquoteright}s contribution to this article was supported in part by the grant {\textquoteleft}Civic Virtue in Public Life: Understanding and Countering Incivility in Liberal Democracies,{\textquoteright} as part of the Self, Virtue and Public Life Project, a three-year research initiative based at the Institute for the Study of Human Flourishing at the University of Oklahoma, funded with the generous support from the Templeton Religion Trust. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 Australian Political Studies Association.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1080/10361146.2021.1935448",
language = "English",
volume = "56",
pages = "189--205",
journal = "Australian Journal of Political Science",
issn = "1036-1146",
publisher = "Taylor & Francis",
number = "2",
}