Mission consciousness
A sense of mission is the conviction of a person or group that the values , doctrines or political-social orders striven for in their own circle will be expanded to others and made binding. These can be borne by individuals, a religious or ideological community, a people or a political association, for example a party .
The Duden defines mission awareness “as someone's firm conviction that they have been chosen for a mission”. According to Meyer's lexicon, mission awareness is often “a constitutive part of an ideology and often serves as a justification for expansion efforts of a political, religious, cultural, economic and military nature”.
A sense of mission is particularly a component of missionary religions . Especially in messianism and the messianic movements , the expectation of a savior and redeemer ( messiah ) becomes the object of a mission.
According to Stefan Samerski , a “messianic sense of mission to save Europe” can be filtered out as “identity-creating moments” of the Second Polish Republic after “the sufferings of the Polish people” after the November uprising were “interpreted theologically and exaggerated in terms of salvation history”. Rudolf von Albertini takes the view that Dostoevsky most clearly formulated the Russian sense of mission of the 1870s. Furthermore, the western world is ascribed a sense of mission for democracy and human rights in a western style. Samuel P. Huntington criticizes this hegemony in his work Clash of Civilizations .
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- ^ Meyers Lexikon Online, no longer available, mirrored on enzyklo.de , accessed on November 18, 2011
- ↑ Consciousness of conscience , on Wissen.de/Geschichte, accessed on November 18, 2011
- ↑ Consciousness of consignment on duden.de, accessed on November 18, 2011
- ↑ Stefan Samerski: The contribution of the Catholic Church to the cultural-national identity of Poland in the 20th century ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Rudolf von Albertini: Handbuch der Europäische Geschichte Vol. 6, Union Druckerei (1973), p. 317. on Googlebooks
