The Sacred in Twentieth-Century Politics

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: The Evolutions and Convolutions of Political Religion

   1. Introduction: The Evolutions and Convolutions of Political Religion

      • Roger Griffin

      Pages 1-18

3. Conceptualizing Political Religion

   1. Front Matter

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   2. On the Heuristic Value of the Concept of Political Religion and Its Application

      • Stanley G. Payne

      Pages 21-35

   3. The Missiological Roots of the Concept of ‘Political Religion’

      • Werner Ustorf

      Pages 36-50

   4. Is Castroism a Political Religion?

      • Eusebio Mujal-León, Eric Langenbacher

      Pages 51-85

4. The Sacralization of Politics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Fascism as the Expression of a Spiritual Revolution in Italy

      • Robert Mallett

      Pages 89-106

   3. What Insights Do We Gain from Interpreting National Socialism as a Political Religion?

      • Klaus Vondung

      Pages 107-118

   4. Marxism—Leninism as a Secular Religion

      • Anatoly M. Khazanov

      Pages 119-142

   5. Maoism in the Cultural Revolution: A Political Religion?

      • Rana Mitter

      Pages 143-165

5. The Politicization of Religion

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167

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   2. An Islamist Turkish Party’s Journey to Democracy and Modernity

      • Kemal H. Karpat

      Pages 169-177

   3. Hindutva as a Political Religion: An Historical Perspective

      • Robert E. Frykenberg

      Pages 178-220

   4. The United States: Messianism, Apocalypticism, and Political Religion

      • Chip Berlet

      Pages 221-257

6. Back Matter

   Pages 258-291

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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.

• apocalyptic
• democracy
• fascism
• ideology
• marxism
• politics
• revolution
• socialism

• Oxford Brookes University, UK

  Roger Griffin

• Departments of Medieval and Modern History, University of Birmingham, UK

  Robert Mallett

• Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

  John Tortorice

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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