One critical question in the study of religion from at least the late nineteenth century and the work of Durkheim is the relationship between society and religion. Do social phenomena influence religion, or does religion …
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Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: General Will
Mosse’s General Will and Christianity On the first page of Nationalization of the Masses, Mosse introduces us to the “general will,” a term rooted in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) that consists of “the …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Politics as Drama
Politics as Drama: Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses One of Nationalization of the Masses’ most enduring contributions is to evoke how the masses came to see politics as a “drama within which liturgical rites took …
Dan Hummel, Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses: Secular Religion
Secular Religion: Mosse’s Nationalization of the Masses The Nationalization of the Masses is not one of George Mosse’s best known works, but it remains a stimulating and relevant analysis of the rise of mass movements …
Ana Schaposchnik, The Lima Inquisition (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015)
Ana E. Schaposchnik is an associate professor of history at DePaul University. Ana Schaposchnik, The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru (University of Wisconsin Press, 2015). The Holy Office of the Inquisition …
Chad Alan Goldberg, Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2017)
New Book by Professor Chad Alan Goldberg: Chad Alan Goldberg, Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2017). In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in …
Brad Baranowski reviews Martin Jay, Reason After its Eclipse (2016)
Martin Jay, Reason after its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). Professor Jay gave the George L. Mosse Lectures in Jerusalem …