Dream-Realities: Rematerializing Martyrs and the Missing Soldiers of the Iran-Iraq War
Casting the fallen soldiers of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) as "martyrs" plays a crucial role in the legitimation discourse of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The government has succeeded in integrating many "martyr families" into a state-revering political cult. This ethnographic...
| Subtitles: | "Special Section: Elsewhere Affects" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Berghahn
[2020]
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| In: |
Religion and society
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 1, Pages: 148-162 |
| Further subjects: | B
Muslim shrines
B martyr-cult B affective space B Atmospheres B dream-images B Behesht-e Zahra cemetery B dream-reality B saintly dreams |
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| Summary: | Casting the fallen soldiers of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) as "martyrs" plays a crucial role in the legitimation discourse of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The government has succeeded in integrating many "martyr families" into a state-revering political cult. This ethnographic study draws on theories of affect and atmosphere to investigate how practices around saintly dreams and their materialization in photographs and gravestones of martyrs have challenged the state narratives and discourses. I approach the veneration of martyrs through both affective and narrative sources and explore gravestones as new saintly localities. These localities are spaces of divinely intermediation with intimate connection to the transcendental realm. The multifaceted atmosphere of these sites offers nonconformist and heterogeneous entanglements in which dream-images of martyrs allow for the momentary subversion of the state's political cult. |
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| ISSN: | 2150-9301 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3167/arrs.2020.110111 |