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Prevent the rise of a black messiah: Madness or revolution

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
In the late 1960s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), a United States of America (US) intelligence agency, developed what is famously known as Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO). Its mission was to surveil, misinform, misdirect and subvert
Hlulani M. Mdingi
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A Messianic Life Can Be Lived Rightly: Democracy contra the Capitalist-Sovereign Order [PDF]

Central European Journal of Politics, 2021
Liberal democracy is far from being the ideal form of democracy. In liberal democracies, every aspect of the individual’s life is heteronomous to the forces of the state and capitalism.
Mario Mikhail
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The Esoteric Background of Yugoslav Messianism

, 2023
Panhumanism was an intellectual movement in interwar Serbian culture that encompassed the idea of Yugoslav messianism. After research based on the archive material of the New Atlantis, we show that the circle of panhumanists from what was essentially the
Nemanja Radulović, Radulović, Nemanja
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Political messianism and democracy: On possibility of political self-transformation of democracy [PDF]

Filozofija i Društvo, 2016
The article deals with the relation of political messianism to ongoing debate on the crisis of democracy. The conceptual framework of political messianism is the convenient analytical tool because it makes the concept of crisis a starting point ...
Pavićević Đorđe
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The Messianic Without Messianism [PDF]

Anthropology & Materialism, 2013
This article discusses Walter Benjamin’s messianic thought. Far from being a theological concept proper or a secularized motif of Judeo-Christian religion, the messianic is a complex figure of thought addressing a dimension of profane life that is neither culture nor nature but a ‘weak power’ within history allowing for a messianic standstill of the ...
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Second Temple Jewish Messianism as Social Political Discourse

, 2022
Ancient Jewish authors wrote extensively on Jewish messiahs. Scholars have identified in these works the social, religious, and political agendas of Jewish writers.
Scott, Joshua
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Beyond “Making Poland Great Again.” Nostalgia in Polish Populist and Non‐populist Discourses1

Sociological Forum, Volume 37, Issue S1, Page 1360-1386, December 2022., 2022
Nostalgia can be triggered not only by personal recollections but also by exposure to narratives or images evoking desirable pasts, more or less fictional, and inducing feelings of longing for them. We analyze the institutional and semiotic machinery involved in the cultural construction of nostalgia in Poland and its role in generating sentiments that
Marta Kotwas, Jan Kubik
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Remarks on Some Aspects of Messianism

, 2021
This is an English translation of a paper by Emilia Ehrlich OSU (1924–2006), a long-time secretary and close associate of John Paul II, published in Polish in 1982.
Ehrlich, Emilia; Ursulines of the Roman Union, Rome
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Karl Lueger and the Reichspost: Construction of a Cult of Personality

Australian Journal of Politics &History, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 337-358, September 2022., 2022
This article contributes to the body of research on fin‐de‐siècle Viennese and Austrian history, as well as the history of ideas and press history. It expands on the scholarship by focusing on one newspaper — the Catholic‐conservative Reichspost (affiliated with the Christian Social Party) — to analyse how it perpetuated the cult of personality ...
Chris O'Neill
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Messianisme dalam Perspektif Filsafat Sejarah

Jurnal Filsafat, 2007
The concept of messianism which was derived from religion was also found in historical thought of philosophers like Hegel, Karl Marx, Auguste Comte, Berdyaev.
Misnal Munir
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