Nazi radio spectacles deliberately mimicked religious worship

Evidence

The German Radio Division saved its greatest efforts for the “national moments,” (Stunden der Nation), like the one at the beginning of this chapter, for which the entire nation suspended activity and the Radio Guard herded all the people into listening rooms. The resemblance to congregating for a religious service was no accident but a conscious mimicry of the “total experience of worship in a church.” — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 419

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ADDENDUM article on ritual sacrifice as stabilizing shared emotion; also to Durkheim’s collective effervescence theories of shared attention. — connects to: Nazi radio mixed light entertainment with political material to sugarcoat propaganda. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 415; Nazi Germany functioned as a secular religion replacing Christian rites. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 464; Radio revival shows transmitted modern evangelicalism under traditionalist branding — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne: How White…, 219

Broader Connections

• Nazi Germany functioned as a secular religion replacing Christian rites. #corroborates (0.85) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 464
• Radio revival shows transmitted modern evangelicalism under traditionalist branding #expands (0.72) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 219