Totality, charisma, authority : the origins and transformations of totalist movements
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Bibliographic Information
Totality, charisma, authority : the origins and transformations of totalist movements
(Research)
Springer VS, c2017
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Münster, 2016
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-338)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This interdisciplinary endeavour portrays the central features of militant movements which hold totality as an important part of their doctrinal core. Revisiting the importance of modernity, utopianism, eschatology, charisma, psychology and the history of ideas, Mihai Murariu pursues a reconstruction of the historical requirements for the emergence of such movements. Making a central use of the concept of totalism, the work establishes a conceptual bridge from antiquity to the contemporary period, whilst also arguing for the suitability of the term in comparison to totalitarianism or political religion. The author also proposes a distinct taxonomy for structural elements, variants, and development phases which may be encountered in totalist movements.
Table of Contents
Totality and Totalism: Theory and Concepts.- Evolving Perspectives: Eschatology and Utopia.- The Totalist Types: Between Renovative and Utopian Strands.- Totalism Transformed: Power, Purity, and Truth from Heterodoxy to Ideocracy.-The Legion of the Archangel Michael and the "Hybrid" Totalist Type.
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