Political Religion beyond Totalitarianism

1. Introduction: Politics and Religion

1. Introduction: Politics and Religion
Joost Augusteijn, Patrick Dassen, Maartje Janse

Part I. Definition

2. Religion and Politics: In Search of Resemblances
Herman Paul

3. The Religious Side of Democracy: Early Socialism, Twenty-first-century Populism and the Sacralization of Politics
Henk te Velde

Part II. Religion and Democracy

4. A Dangerous Type of Politics? Politics and Religion in Early Mass Organizations: The Anglo-American World, c. 1830
Maartje Janse

5. De-sanctifying Affairs of State: The Politics of Religion in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Eduard Bilt

Part III. Socialism

6. Religious Aspects of Socialist Imagery, c.1890–2000: A Visual Essay
Jolijn Groothuizen, Dennis Bos

7. A Grassroots Sacred Socialist History: Dutch Social Democrats (1894–1920)
Adriaan Veldhuizen

Part IV. Nationalism

8. Nationalism as a Political Religion: The Sacralization of the Irish Nation
Joost Augusteijn

9. The German Nation as a Secular Religion in the First World War? About the Problem of Unity in Modern German History
Patrick Dassen

10. History or Civil Religion? The Uses of Lincoln’s ‘Last Best Hope of Earth’
Adam Fairclough

Part V. Religion and Revolution

11. Revolutionary Mystique: Religious Undertones in the Russian Revolution of 1917
Henk Kern

12. The Belief in Disbelief: Anticlericalism and the Sacralization of Politics in Spain (1900–39)
Eric Storm

13. Concluding Remarks
Joost Augusteijn, Patrick Dassen, Maartje Janse

Keywords: History, European History, Modern History, Political History, Social History, Political Philosophy, Political Science