About the Book:Introduction: The Evolutions and Convolutions of Political Religion; R.Griffin PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING POLITICAL RELIGION The Heuristic Value of the Concept ‘Political Religion’; S.Payne The Missiological Roots of the Concept of ‘Political Religion’; W.Ustorf Is Castroism a Political Religion?; E.Mujal-Leon & E.Langenbacher PART II: THE SACRALIZATION OF POLITICS Fascism as the Expression of a Spiritual Revolution in Italy (The Spiritual revolution of Fascist Italy); R.Mallett What Insights Do We Gain from Interpreting National Socialism as a Political Religion? (National Socialism as a Political Religion; K.Vondung Marxism-Leninism as a Secular Religion; A.Khazanov Maoism in the Cultural Revolution: a Political Religion?; R.Mitter PART III: THE POLITICIZATION OF RELIGION An Islamist Turkish Party’s Journey to Democracy and Modernity; K.H.Karpat Hindutva as a Political Religion: a Historical Perspective; R.Frykenberg The United States: Messianism, Apocalypticism, and Political Religion; C.Berlet Appendix I: An Interview with Stanley Payne Appendix II: The Curriculum Vitae of Stanley Payne