Table of Contents

Foreword Part 1: Presentations and discussions papers 1. Introduction Hans Maier 2. ‘Religious Faith’ in National Socialism Claus Vondung 3. Discussion of Chapter 2 4. Liturgy in the Service of Power: the National Socialist Cult of the Dead as a secularised Christian paschal celebration Hansjakob Becker 5. Discussion of Chapter 4 6. Marxism-Leninism as political religion Klaus-Georg Riegel 7. Discussion of Chapter 6 8. Communist Faith and World-Explanatory Doctrine – a philosophical analysis Peter Ehlen 9. Discussion of Chapter 8 10. National Socialism as a political religion Hans Mommsen 11. Concluding Discussions Part 2: Contributions to Research 12. Alfred Rosenberg’s Mythus des 20 Jahrhundrets as Political Religion: The ‘kingdom of heaven within us’ as a foundation of German national racial identity Claus-Ekkehard Bärsch 13. ‘Political Religion’ – a religion? Some remarks on the concept of religion Mathias Behrens 14. Ideology, Sects, State and Totalitarianism: a general theory Peter Bernholz 15. ‘Political Religion’ – the potentials and limitations of a concept Hans Maier 16. Recalling the ‘Engaged Observer’ in Changed Times: on Raymond Aron as a theoretician of totalitarianism and the global nuclear situation Harald Seubert

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Hans Maier, Michael Schäfer