Appendix: Introduction to TMPR special issue 6.3, 'Political Religions and the Sacralisation of Politics'

In: Totalitarian movements and political religions, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 721-725

Abstract

The following was due to appear as the Introduction to the six articles of the special issue on: 'Political Religions and the Sacralisation of Politics' published in TMPR issue 6.3. Owing to an oversight in the last stages of production, the introduction by Peter Lambert and Jie-Hyun Lim was omitted, and is republished here as an Appendix to the double issue 8.3/4 on the occasion of the publication of five more articles based on the same conference in a featured section. (See the Editorial Statement and the Introduction by Robert Mallet and Peter Lambert. The original articles can be obtained via the Web at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g727349332.) Its relevance to the current issue lies mainly in the organiser's explanation of the aims of the RICH project on mass dictatorship, which has a direct bearing on the featured theme of 'heroisation'. The editors would like to apologise to Peter Lambert, Jie-Hyun Lim and RICH for the original error. Adapted from the source document.