Ruler Personality Cults from Empires to Nation-States and Beyond (eBook, ePUB)

Symbolic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics
Redaktion: Postoutenko, Kirill; Stephanov, Darin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Encompassing five continents and twenty centuries, this book puts ruler personality cults on the crossroads of disciplines rarely, if ever, juxtaposed before: among its authors are historians, linguists, media scholars, political scientists and communication sociologists from Europe, the United States and New Zealand.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000177176
• Artikelnr.: 59879449

Autorenporträt

Kirill Postoutenko is Senior Researcher in the Special Research Area 1288 (Practices of Comparison) at Bielefeld University, Germany, and Visiting Professor of Russian at the University of Besançon, France. Darin Stephanov is Guest Researcher at the Islamic Cultures and Societies Research Unit at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Symbolic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics in Ruler Personality Cults:
State of the Art and Open Questions;
1. "Personality Cults": The Career of the Contested Notion;
2. The Mechanisms of Cult Production: An Overview;
3. Making the Cult of Personality from Bottom Up: The Case of
Seventeenth-Century Mughal India;
4. A Personality Cult against One's Will? Traits and Trajectories of
Popular Veneration of Emperor Alexander I (r. 1801-1825);
5. Of Death and Dominion: Queen Victoria and the Cult of Colonial Loyalty;
6. The Magic Mirror: Supplicant Letters and the Role of False Equivalences
in Shaping Ruler Dominance;
7. Father of the People, Face of the Nation: The Premodern and Modern
Foundations of Ruler Personality Cults;
8. The Image of Josip Broz Tito in Post-Yugoslavia: Between National and
Local Memory;
9. Deification, Canonization and Random Signaling: Upholding and Sustaining
Personality Cults;
10. 'We Thank You, Our Beloved Leader!' The Origins and Evolution of
Nicolae Ceau¿escu's Cult of Personality;
11. Embodied Practices of Leadership: The Case of Recep Tayyip Erdöan;
12. Symbolic Patterns and Interactional Dynamics in Ruler Personality
Cults: Responding to Questions and Formulating Ideas for Future Research