Political religion beyond totalitarianism the sacralization of politics in the age of democracy /

Political religion beyond totalitarianism [electronic resource] : the sacralization of politics in the age of democracy / edited by Joost Augusteijn, Patrick G.C. Dassen, Maartje J. Janse.

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It has long been established that an important element in the success of fascist and communist regimes was their ability to turn their political ideology into a type of religion. The eleven innovative essays in this volume explore the notion that all forms of modern mass politics, including liberal...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Augusteijn, Joost, Dassen, Patrick, 1961-, Janse, Maartje
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Subjects:
Totalitarianism.
Religion and politics.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Politics and Religion; P. Dassen, J. Augusteijn & M. Janse
  • PART I: DEFINITION
  • Religion and Politics: In Search of Resemblances; H. Paul
  • The Religious Side of Democracy. Early Socialism, 21st-century Populism and the Sacralization of Politics; H.te Velde
  • PART II: RELIGION AND DEMOCRACY:
  • A Dangerous Type of Politics? Politics and Religion in Early Mass Organizations: The Anglo-American World, c. 1830; M. Janse
  • De-sanctifying Affairs of State: The Politics of Religion in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852); E.van de Bilt,
  • PART III: SOCIALISM
  • Visual Essay: Religious Aspects of Socialist Imagery, c.1890-2000; J. Groothuizen & D. Bos
  • A Grassroots Sacred Socialist History. Dutch Social Democrats (1894-1920); A.van Veldhuizen
  • PART IV: NATIONALISM
  • Nationalism as a Political Religion: The Sacralization of the Irish Nation; J. Augusteijn
  • The German Nation as a Secular Religion in the First World War? About the Problem of Unity in Modern German History; P. Dassen
  • History or Civil Religion? The Uses of Lincoln's 'Last, Best Hope of Earth'; A. Fairclough
  • PART V: RELIGION AND REVOLUTION
  • Revolutionary Mystique: Religious Undertones in the Russian Revolution of 1917; H. Kern
  • The Belief in Disbelief: Anticlericalism and the Sacralization of Politics in Spain (1900-39); E. Storm
  • Concluding Remarks; J. Augusteijn, P. Dassen & M. Janse.

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