Totalitarianism and political religions

• Series Editor's Preface

• Preface

• Part 1
• Totalitarianism

• 1
• The History of the Concept of Totalitarianism in Italy

• 2
• Luigi Sturzo as a Theorist of Totalitarianism

• Discussion of Papers

• 3
• Waldemar Gurian and the Development of the Concept of Totalitarianism

• Discussion of Hürten's Paper

• 4
• Reflections on Russian Totalitarianism

• 5
• Natural Science in the Soviet Union under Totalitarian Conditions at the Beginning of the 1930s

• Discussion of the Papers of

• 6
• The Other Side of Totalitarianism: The state of the debate in

• Discussion of Tomka's Paper

• 7
• A Glance at the History and Present of the Bohemian Countries

• Discussion of Rokyta's Paper

• Part 2
• Political Religions

• 8
• The Religious Use of Politics and/or the Political Use of Religion: Ersatz ideology versus ersatz religion

• Discussion of Linz's Paper

• 9
• Terror and Salvation: Experience of political events in the work of

• Discussion of Hover's Paper

• 10
• The Concept of 'Political Religions' in the Thought of Eric Voegelin Dietmar Herz

• 11
• The Modern Despotic Regime and Literature

• Part 3
• General Discussion

• 12
• Concepts for the Comparison of Dictatorships: 'Totalitarianism' and 'political religions'

• 13
• Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe and its Consequences: A theoretical perspective

• 14
• Despotism, Ersatz Religion, Religious

• 15
• Reflections on Future Totalitarianism Research

• 16
• The Historicity of Totalitarianism: George Orwell's evidence Hermann Lübbe

• Concluding Discussion

• Part 4
• Research Contributions

• 17
• Totalitarianism as a Twentieth-Century Phenomenon

• 18
• National Socialism, Fascism and Authoritarian Regimes

• 19
• Religious and Ecclesiastical Structures in Communism and National Socialism, and the Role of the Writer

• 20
• Enlightenment and Terror: Historico-metaphysical prerequisites of totalitarian democracy

• 21
• On Marxism, Christianity and Totalitarianism An Interview with

• Index