Stalinist Ritual and Belief System: Reflections on ‘Political Religion’
This article offers a critical assessment of the Political Religion Theory on the basis of a comparative analysis of the Orthodox and Stalinist belief systems and ritual. The theory works under the assumption that sacralisation of secular objects endows these objects with a transcendental, divine au...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2016
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Politics, religion & ideology
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 143-161 |
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