内容説明
The success of fascist and communist regimes has long been explained by their ability to turn political ideology into a type of religion. These innovative essays explore the notion that all forms of modern mass-politics, including democracies, need a form of sacralization to function.
目次
- 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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