Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume II (eBook, ePUB)

Concepts for the Comparison Of Dictatorships
Redaktion: Maier, Hans; Schäfer, Michael / Übersetzer: Bruhn, Jodi

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Totalitarianism and Political Religions, Volume II, available for the first time in English translation, features contributions from leading scholars of political extremism, sociology and modern history. Based upon a seminal conference on political religions, edited by eminent Professor Hans Maier, the book seeks to define the term and explore its application to the interpretation of a wide variety of totalitarian movements in Europe in the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134063451
• Artikelnr.: 38267011

Autorenporträt

Hans Maier, Michael Schäfer

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Part 1: Presentations and discussions papers 1. Introduction Hans
Maier 2. 'Religious Faith' in National Socialism Claus Vondung 3.
Discussion of Chapter 2 4. Liturgy in the Service of Power: the National
Socialist Cult of the Dead as a secularised Christian paschal celebration
Hansjakob Becker 5. Discussion of Chapter 4 6. Marxism-Leninism as
political religion Klaus-Georg Riegel 7. Discussion of Chapter 6 8.
Communist Faith and World-Explanatory Doctrine - a philosophical analysis
Peter Ehlen 9. Discussion of Chapter 8 10. National Socialism as a
political religion Hans Mommsen 11. Concluding Discussions Part 2:
Contributions to Research 12. Alfred Rosenberg's Mythus des 20 Jahrhundrets
as Political Religion: The 'kingdom of heaven within us' as a foundation of
German national racial identity Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch 13. 'Political
Religion' - a religion? Some remarks on the concept of religion Mathias
Behrens 14. Ideology, Sects, State and Totalitarianism: a general theory
Peter Bernholz 15. 'Political Religion' - the potentials and limitations of
a concept Hans Maier 16. Recalling the 'Engaged Observer' in Changed Times:
on Raymond Aron as a theoretician of totalitarianism and the global nuclear
situation Harald Seubert