Reflections on fascism and religion

Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 149-171

  Eatwell, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203010969     Document Type: Chapter

References (41)

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2. See especially E.Voegelin, Political Religions (Lewiston, NY: E. Mellen Press, 1986; first German edn. 1938);
3. see also P.F.Drucker, The End of Economic Man (London: William Heinemann, 1939).
4. For example, M.Burleigh, The Third Reich: A New History (London:Macmillan, 2000);
5. E.Gentile, The Sacralization of Politics in Fascist Italy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996).
6. For more analytical presentations, see M.Burleigh, 'National Socialism as a Political Religion', Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 1/2 (2000), pp.1-26;
7. E.Gentile, 'The Sacralisation of Politics:Definitions, Interpretations and Reflections on the Question of Secular Religion and Totalitarianism', Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions 1/1 (2000), pp. 18-55.
8. On early Fascism, see A.Lytteleton, The Seizure of Power: Fascism in Italy, 1919-1929 (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987).
9. See especially D.A.Binchy, Church and State in Fascist Italy (London:Oxford University Press, 1970);
10. J.F.Pollard, The Vatican and Italian Fascism, 1929-1932 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983);
11. R.A.Webster, The Cross and the Fasces (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1960).
12. On Fascist-Jewish relations, see M.Michaelis, Mussolini and the Jews (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978);
13. A.Stille, Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Jewish Families under Fascism (London: Cape, 1992);
14. S.Zuccotti, The Italians and the Holocaust (New York: Basic Books, 1987).
15. For the most balanced account of the issue, see R.Rychlak, Hitler, the War and the Pope (Huntington, IN: Our Sunday Visitor Books, 2000).
16. For the defence case relating to Pius XII, see P.Blet, Pius XII and the Second World War: According to the Archives of the Vatican (New York: Paulist Press, 1999).
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19. See C.Koonz, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics (London: Cape, 1987).
20. Cited in L.Volovici, Nationalist Ideology and anti-Semitism: The Case of Romanian Intellectuals in the 1930s (Oxford: Pergamon, 1991), p. 85 (italics in the original).
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26. N.Goodrick-Clarke, The Occult Roots of Nazism (Wellingborough:Aquarian Press, 1985);
27. P.Levenda, Unholy Alliance (New York:Continuum, 2002).
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36. For examples of important works on Nazi voting, see C.Fischer, The Rise of National Socialism and the Working Class in Weimar Germany (Oxford: Berghahn, 1996);
37. D. Mühlberger, Hitler's Followers (London: Routledge, 1991).
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39. G.Ally and S.Heim, The Architects of Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction (London: Weidenfeld, 2003).
40. On the prestige of science, see P.Weindling, Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism 1870-1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
41. R.Eatwell and A.W.Wright, Contemporary Political Ideologies (London:Pinter, 1999), esp. ch.1.