National mysticism

National mysticism German Nationalmystik or mystical nationalism is a construct of ] National mysticism is closely related to ] but goes beyond a expounding of romantic sentiment, to the mystical veneration of the nation as a transcendent truth. It often intersects with ]

National mysticism is encountered in many nationalisms other than Germanic or Nazi mysticism together with expresses itself in the ownership of occult, pseudoscientific, or pseudohistorical beliefs to back up nationalistic claims, often involving unrealistic notions of the antiquity of a nation antiquity frenzy or any national myth defended as "true" by pseudo-scholarly means.[]