The sacred in twentieth-century politics : essays in honour of Professor Stanley G. Payne / edited by Roger Griffin, Robert Mallett and John Tortorice.

Proceedings of a conference held in May 2004 at the University of Wisconsin--Madison.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-279) and index.

Introduction: The Evolutions and Convolutions of Political Religion; R.Griffin; PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING POLITICAL RELIGION; The Heuristic Value of the Concept 'Political Religion'; S.Payne; The Missiological Roots of the Concept of 'Political Religion'; W.Ustorf; Is Castroism a Political Religion?; E.Mujal-Leon and E.Langenbacher; PART II: THE SACRALIZATION OF POLITICS; Fascism as the Expression of a Spiritual Revolution in Italy (The Spiritual revolution of Fascist Italy); R.Mallett; What Insights Do We Gain from Interpreting National Socialism as a Political Religion? (National Socialism as a Political Religion; K.Vondung; Marxism-Leninism as a Secular Religion; A.Khazanov; Maoism in the Cultural Revolution: a Political Religion?; R.Mitter; PART III: THE POLITICIZATION OF RELIGION; An Islamist Turkish Party's Journey to Democracy and Modernity; K.H.Karpat; Hindutva as a Political Religion: a Historical Perspective; R.Frykenberg; The United States: Messianism, Apocalypticism, and Political Religion; C.Berlet; Appendix I: An Interview with Stanley Payne; Appendix II: The Curriculum Vitae of Stanley Payne.