1 The left-wing Islamist Hassan Hanafi employs the term fundamentalism in his book al-
Usuliyya al-Islamiyya (Islamic Fundamentalism), Cairo, 1989, as the title suggests. In …

A new line of inquiry into the history of communist regimes and the cold war has emerged.
Pioneered by Stephen Kotkin and other American historians, it views Stalinism as the …

Recent research suggests that the settling of Muslims in secular Europe is leading to the
individualisation of their religious identity and to the fragmentation of their social life. Such …

Available for the first time in English language translation, the third volume of Totalitarianism
and Political Religions completes the set. It provides a comprehensive overview of key …

The introduction aims at critically discussing 'traditional'styles vis-à-vis sportification
trajectories and favours the notion of 'modified'wrestling. Though neo-traditional or …

The chapter discusses different types of illiberal regimes: dictatorship, despotism, tyranny,
autocracy, totalitarianism, and authoritarianism. In a preliminary sense, these regimes are …

The cultural legacy of the air war on Germany is explored in this comparative study of two
bombed cities from different sides of the subsequently divided nation. Contrary to what is …

Cette étude formule l'hypothèse critique d'une opération de remythologisation par une
réactualisation théologico-politique de la tragédie chez Heidegger. Cette opération ne …

The concept of political religion as used in the study of National Socialism depends upon
highly criticized expressive-symbolist theories of religion and an implied opposition to the …

Das Zeitalter der Extreme–so hat der britische Historiker Eric Hobsbawm das zu Ende
gegangene zwanzigste Jahrhundert genannt (Hobsbawm 1995). In der Tat: Auf-und Abstieg …