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Charisma in Politics, Religion and the Media

Private Trauma, Public Ideals

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  • © 1996

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Authors:
  1. David Aberbach

    1. McGill University, Canada
      London School of Economics, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Political Charisma: Crisis and Paradox

    • David Aberbach
    Pages 1-16

  3. Churchill in 1940–1: The Fragility of Charisma

    • David Aberbach
    Pages 17-24

  4. Hitler: Charisma and Racism

    • David Aberbach
    Pages 25-33

  5. Charisma and Religion: From Ecstasy to Democracy

    • David Aberbach
    Pages 35-44

  6. Krishnamurti: Reluctant Messiah

    • David Aberbach
    Pages 45-58

  7. Paradoxes of a ‘National Poet’: The Strange Case of Bialik

    • David Aberbach
    Pages 59-73

  8. Charisma and the Media

    • David Aberbach
    Pages 75-88

  9. Chaplin: Of Crime and Genius

    • David Aberbach
    Pages 89-101

  10. Conclusion

    • David Aberbach
    Pages 103-108

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 109-121
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What are the origins of charisma? Are these the same in the various forms of public life, in politics and the media as well as in religion? In this new and radical interpretation of charisma, David Aberbach argues that the basis of charisma in all its forms must be found in the often-obscure symbolic intersection between the inner world of the charismatic and external social and political reality. As illustrations of various facets of this argument, he provides general analyses of charisma in politics, religion and the media as well as individual studies of Churchill, Hitler, Krishnamurti, Bialik and Chaplin.

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  • McGill University, Canada

    David Aberbach

  • London School of Economics, UK

    David Aberbach

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