Politics is practiced by the living, but sometimes also built upon the dead. This is the case
with National Socialism and other religions of the fatherland. They are vehicles for a politics …

The rhetoric and forms of representation of martyrdom in the death culture of international
socialism is explored in relation to Belgium and the Netherlands, notably in Ghent and …

In this paper, I test the analytical value and pertinence of the concept of political religion with
respect to National Socialism in three steps:(1) I point out the religious' elements in the area …

What we have been observing in different parts of the world is the return of martyrdom as an
ideal and as a motive. We realise that the denial of death is part of all religious belief …

This article explores the ways in which theories of political religion can contribute to our
understanding of the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, and not least to the …

This article discusses the role of images within political religions, focusing on Soviet
communism, Italian Fascism and German National Socialism. It first examines the role of the …

George Bernard Shaw, writing on the execution of the leaders of the 1916 Irish rebellion,
contended that it turned Padraic Pearse from a minor poet to a martyr. Of course Shaw was …

The Soviet experience is replete with authoritarian bodysnatching. Either the body must be
rendered eternal, like Lenin's waxy remains lying forever in state on Red Square, or the …

'Mass dictatorship'as a working hypothesis starts from a simple question: what is the
difference between pre-modern despotism and modern dictatorship? My tentative answer is …

" All shaking I raise my eyes to see God... and there I see the face of an SS guard standing in
front of the truck. He is still very tired. Dawn is cold, his hands are in his black military coat. In …