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The “Cult of Personality” and Sexual Relations
Psychiatry (New York), 1941(1941). The “Cult of Personality” and Sexual Relations. Psychiatry: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 343-348.
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Musicianship and the Cult of Personality
2019Public access to secular music started the cult of superstars. Composition matched this new demand. Stars were eclipsed by ever greater virtuosity. This created a demand for more powerful instruments and better concert halls. Fame was equally available for the conductors.
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Leadership and the cult of personality
2016Throughout the world, including the Arab region, the cult of personality has played a significant role in authoritarian and totalitarian states, impacting them politically, economically, and culturally. In general, a cult is “an established system of veneration of a political leader, to which members of the society are expected to subscribe, a system ...
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Cult of Personalities and Politics of Domination
2010This chapter is an analytical report card on the sociopolitical resume/credentials of contemporary African leadership and governance. The attempt to arrive at any meaningful evaluation would involve negotiating between series and patterns of ambivalent structures that have been the character of African politics in general: culture/tradition versus ...
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Art, Propaganda and the Cult of Personality
1994Propaganda, as a means of shaping and controlling public opinion, is a familiar instrument of every modern government. Unlike twentieth-century regimes, imperial France had no Ministry of Propaganda, and no Ministry of Information, but Napoleon himself was responsible for supervising these essential functions of government.
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A Review of Cults and Personality
Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1990Abstract Cults, especially satanic cults, have sparked much interest in recent years. Cult leaders inspire morbid fascination. Concern is expressed for the followers, who may have been proselytized with subterfuge and induced to join with subtle coercion. When an innocent person with no interest in cults is victimized in a violent cultic
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The Cult of Personality During the Khrushchev Thaw
Russian Studies in History, 2011Nikita Khrushchev's famous denunciation of Stalin during his secret speech to the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956 may have been motivated more by internal power plays against his political rivals than by a desire to expose Stalin's "cult of personality." The denunciation surprised foreign visitors and resident party officials alike.
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The Cult of Personality and Symbolic Politics
2013The article discusses characteristics and relevance of leader cults and symbolic politics within state socialism. After defining distinctive features of modern personality cults, the article traces trajectories of major cults over time and highlights interconnections, similarities, and differences between them.
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‘Are there Marlians in the Buhari government?’ Popular music and personality cult in Nigeria
Celebrity Studies, 2022Emaeyak Peter Sylvanus +1 more
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