Publications

Shiekh Abdullah Azzam

Martyrs: The Building Blocks of Nations (Lecture)

Paul Berman

Terror and Liberalism (Book Excerpts)

Glenn Bowman

Xenophobia, Fantasy and the Nation: The Logic of Ethnic Violence in Former Yugoslavia (Book Chapter)

Michael Bryson

Dismemberment and Community: Sacrifice and the Communal Body in the Hebrew Scriptures (Paper)

Franco Fornari

The Psychoanalysis of War (Book Excerpts)

Roger Friedland

Drag Kings at the Totem Ball: The Erotics of Collective Representation in Emile Durkheim and Sigmund Freud (Book Chapter)

Emilio Gentile

A Never-Never Religion, A Substitute for Religion, or a New Religion? (Book Chapter)
Fascism and the Italian Road to Totalitarianism (Paper)

Joseph Goebbels

“The Jews are Guilty”: An attack on the Jews (16 November 1941)

Roger Griffin

Staging the Nation’s Rebirth: the Politics and Aesthetics of Performance in the Context of Fascist Studies (Book Chapter)
The Palingenetic Core of Generic Fascist Ideology (Book Chapter)
The Meaning of ‘Sacrifice’ in the First World War (Paper)

Jeffrey Herf

Narratives of Totalitarianism: Nazism’s Anti-Semitic Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Paper)
The Jewish Enemy (Book Excerpts)
The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust (Book Chapter)
The “Jewish War”: Goebbels and the Antisemitic Campaigns of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry (Paper)

James Jones

Why Does Religion Turn Violent? A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Religious Terrorism (Paper)

Paul Kahn

Evil and European Humanism (Paper)
Political Evil: Killing, Sacrifice, and the Image of God (Chapter 5 of Out of Eden: Adam and Eve and the Problem of Evil, Princeton University Press)
Torture and International Law (Book Chapter)

Ernst H. Kantorowicz

The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology (Book Excerpts)

Mark Kiyak

Are You One of Us, or Are You One of Them?: Five Decades of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Lecture)

Carolyn Marvin

A New Scholarly Dispensation for Civil Religion (Book Chapter)
Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Revisiting Civil Religion (Paper)
Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag (Book Excerpts)
The Totem Myth: Sacrifice and Transformation (Book Chapter)

Lewis Mumford

The Myth of the Machine (Volume I): Technics & Human Development (Book Excerpts)
The Myth of the Machine (Volume II): The Pentagon of Power (Book Excerpts)

Andreas Musolff

What can Critical Metaphor Analysis Add to the Understanding of Racist Ideology? (Paper)

Eli Sagan

At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression, and the State (Book Excerpts)

Elaine Scarry

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (Book Excerpts)

Howard F. Stein

Ruth Stein

Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical Desire (Paper)

Stuart W. Twemlow

The Cult Leader as Agent of a Psychotic Fantasy of Masochistic Group Death (Paper)

Jonah Winters

Martyrdom in Jihad (Paper)