The " sacralization " of the Declaration has " made it a powerful text to enlist on behalf of any cause that might conceivably claim its authority, " writes Maier.
12.
This is not a history of the Holocaust, but rather a history of the idea of the Holocaust and what Novick calls its " perverse sacralization . " ( Rothstein, N . Y . Times News Service)
13.
As an Iran specialist, I can attest that both accusations are false . . . What Ahmadinejad has questioned is the mythologizing, the sacralization, of the Holocaust and the Zionist regime s continued killing of Palestinians and Muslims.
14.
Mosse claims however that it was not until his book " The Nationalization of the Masses " ( 1975 ), which dealt with the sacralization of politics, that he began to put his own stamp upon the analysis of cultural history.
15.
The onetime American passion for pristine performance, the need for cultural validation abroad, the sacralization of canonized Old World masterworks and conductors : all this supported or masked our relative failure to cultivate a classical-music tradition with its own symphonies and operas.
16.
:| title = The Re-Enchantment of the West, Volume 2 : Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture | year = 2005 | location = London | publisher = T & T Clark | isbn = | ref = harv }}
17.
He asserted that Melanesians and Antilleans belonged to the same race . " If there is no such thing as race, there is no such thing as intermixing . " He continued, " The sacralization of race during the Nazi period and earlier has been followed by the negation of race.
18.
In " The Holocaust in American Life " ( Houghton Mifflin, 1999 ) the historian Peter Novick defended this view, arguing that a " perverse sacralization " of the Holocaust had taken place; he found it " deeply offensive " that the Holocaust had been regarded as a unique, Jewish event.
19.
In his discussion of commoditization, he also presents the idea of singularization which occurs because " there are things that are publicly precluded from being commoditized & [ and are ] sometimes extended to things that are normally commodities in effect, commodities are singularized by being pulled out of their commodity sphere . " Kopytoff goes on to describe ways in which commodities can be singularized, for example, through restricted commoditization, sacralization, and terminal commoditization.
20.
Writing in " The Sacralization of Straightedge Punk : Nada Brahma and the Divine Embodiment of Krishnacore ", Mike Dines explores the link between the punk rock aesthetic of bands such as Shelter and 108 and their adherence to " bhakti yoga " . Existing texts on the similarities between straightedge and the Hare Krishna movement emphasise ( amongst others ) the shared principles of vegetarianism, the refraining from intoxicants and the disapproval of illicit sex, he writes . Although I agree with these writers, I also highlight the importance of the devotional doctrine of " bhakti-yoga " within this relationship; a doctrine that was to inform further the move from straightedge punk to Hare Krishna monk .
