The emerging shape of the post Cold War world provides evidence that rather than diminishing, the profound intersection of political ideology and religious forms of belief is an ever more potent force in world affairs. This volume offers both theoretic underpinnings, and a comparative analysis that elucidates this potent and dangerous phenomenon.
ROBERT MALLETT is Lecturer in Modern European History at Birmingham University, UK. He is author of Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933-1940. ROGER GRIFFIN is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His previous books include The Nature of Fascism and Modernism and Fascism. He has also edited Fascism, a documentary reader of primary sources relating to fascism published by OUP (1995), International Fascism. Theories, Causes, and the New Consensus, a documentary reader of secondary sources published by Arnold in 1998, and the five volumes of secondary sources relating to fascism in Routledge's Critical Concepts in Political Science series (1993). JOHN TORTORICE is Director of the Mosse Program in Cultural and Intellectual History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He is co-author (with Stanley Payne and David Sorkin) of What History Tells: George L, Mosse and the Culture of Western Europe and (with Jack Fry and John Tedeschi) Italiian Life Under Fasciism: Selections from the Fry Collection at the University of Wisconsin-Madiison.
Show moreThe emerging shape of the post Cold War world provides evidence that rather than diminishing, the profound intersection of political ideology and religious forms of belief is an ever more potent force in world affairs. This volume offers both theoretic underpinnings, and a comparative analysis that elucidates this potent and dangerous phenomenon.
ROBERT MALLETT is Lecturer in Modern European History at Birmingham University, UK. He is author of Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, 1933-1940. ROGER GRIFFIN is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. His previous books include The Nature of Fascism and Modernism and Fascism. He has also edited Fascism, a documentary reader of primary sources relating to fascism published by OUP (1995), International Fascism. Theories, Causes, and the New Consensus, a documentary reader of secondary sources published by Arnold in 1998, and the five volumes of secondary sources relating to fascism in Routledge's Critical Concepts in Political Science series (1993). JOHN TORTORICE is Director of the Mosse Program in Cultural and Intellectual History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He is co-author (with Stanley Payne and David Sorkin) of What History Tells: George L, Mosse and the Culture of Western Europe and (with Jack Fry and John Tedeschi) Italiian Life Under Fasciism: Selections from the Fry Collection at the University of Wisconsin-Madiison.
Show moreIntroduction: The Evolutions and Convolutions of Political Religion; R.Griffin PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING POLITICAL RELIGION The Heuristic Value of the Concept 'Political Religion'; S.Payne The Missiological Roots of the Concept of 'Political Religion'; W.Ustorf Is Castroism a Political Religion?; E.Mujal-Leon & E.Langenbacher PART II: THE SACRALIZATION OF POLITICS Fascism as the Expression of a Spiritual Revolution in Italy (The Spiritual revolution of Fascist Italy); R.Mallett What Insights Do We Gain from Interpreting National Socialism as a Political Religion? (National Socialism as a Political Religion; K.Vondung Marxism-Leninism as a Secular Religion; A.Khazanov Maoism in the Cultural Revolution: a Political Religion?; R.Mitter PART III: THE POLITICIZATION OF RELIGION An Islamist Turkish Party's Journey to Democracy and Modernity; K.H.Karpat Hindutva as a Political Religion: a Historical Perspective; R.Frykenberg The United States: Messianism, Apocalypticism, and Political Religion; C.Berlet Appendix I: An Interview with Stanley Payne Appendix II: The Curriculum Vitae of Stanley Payne
C BERLET R FRYKENBERG K H KARPAT A KHAZANOV E LANGENBACHER R MITTER E MUJAL-LEON S PAYNE W USTORF K VONDUNG
ROBERT MALLETT is Lecturer in Modern European History at
Birmingham University, UK. He is author of Mussolini and the
Origins of the Second World War, 1933-1940.
ROGER GRIFFIN is Professor in Modern History at Oxford Brookes
University, UK. His previous books include The Nature of
Fascism and Modernism and Fascism. He has also edited Fascism, a
documentary reader of primary sources relating to fascism published
by OUP (1995), International Fascism. Theories, Causes, and the New
Consensus, a documentary reader of secondary sources published by
Arnold in 1998, and the five volumes of secondary sources relating
to fascism in Routledge's Critical Concepts in Political Science
series (1993).
JOHN TORTORICE is Director of the Mosse Program in Cultural
and Intellectual History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison,
USA. He is co-author (with Stanley Payne and David Sorkin) of What
History Tells: George L, Mosse and the Culture of Western Europe
and (with Jack Fry and John Tedeschi) Italiian Life Under Fasciism:
Selections from the Fry Collection at the University of
Wisconsin-Madiison.
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