Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age: A Report on Young People’s Attitudes to Totalitarianism(17 Youth in a Globalizing World)

In Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age Piotr Mazurkiewicz et al. seek to answer the question whether a possible spread of pre-totalitarian attitudes among youth may in the near future pose a threat to the contemporary liberal democratic societies. The authors offer a new approach to the study of totalitarian trends in European societies significantly different from the previous one exploring mainly the historical and institutional-procedural aspects. The book not only offers interesting conclusions drawn from empirical research but also proposes an intellectually attractive theoretical model of understanding totalitarianism that can be used for further research.
The impulse for this reflection was the research work performed by the authors on a cohort of contemporary youths from seven countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction  Miracle Collections in Their Contexts   Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Jenni Kuuliala and Iona McCleery 1 Writing Miracle Collections   Louise Elizabeth Wilson 2 Miracles in Monastic Culture   Emilia Jamroziak 3 The Canonization of Saints in the Middle Ages  Procedure, Documentation, Meanings   Roberto Paciocco 4 Practical Matters  Canonization Records in the Making   Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Jenni Kuuliala 5 Heretics, Hemorrhages, and Herrings  Miracles and the Canonizations of Dominican Saints   Donald S. Prudlo 6 Miracula and Exempla – A Complicated Relationship   Jussi Hanska 7 Rituals and Spaces of Devotion in Cistercian Everyday Religion   Marika Räsänen 8 Pilgrimage as a Feature of Miracles   Leigh Ann Craig 9 Physical Disability and Bodily Difference   Jenni Kuuliala 10 Madness, Demonic Possession, and Methods of Categorization   Sari Katajala-Peltomaa 11 Death in a Birth Chamber  Birth Attendants as Expert Witnesses in the Canonization Process of Bernardino of Siena   Jyrki Nissi 12 Escaping Justice?  The Politics of Liberation Miracles in Late Medieval Portugal   Iona McCleery 13 Protection Miracles as Evidence for the Shifting Political Landscape of Fourteenth-Century Provence   Nicole Archambeau 14 The Mobilization of Thought  A Narratological Approach to Representations of Dream and Vision in Late Medieval Miracle Collections in the Low Countries   Jonas Van Mulder 15 Miracle Types and Narratives  The Case of Saint Margaret of Hungary   Ildikó Csepregi Selected Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Piotr Mazurkiewicz is Professor in Political Science at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (UKSW), Member of the Scientific Council at the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Science, and Editor-in-Chief of the Christianity–World–Politics Journal.
Michał Gierycz is a political scientist, Associate Professor at the UKSW, Dean of the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences, and Deputy Editor of the Christianity–World–Politics Journal.
Krzysztof Wielecki is Professor of Sociology at the UKSW, member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Science, and member of the International Association for Critical Realism, the Polish Sociological Association, the International Sociological Association and the Polish Philosophical Society.
Mariusz Sulkowski (PhD) is a political scientist, Lecturer at the Institute of Political Science and Administration of the UKSW, and Secretary of the Editorial Board of the Christianity–World–Politics Journal. His research interests include Islam, European identity, multiculturalism, relations between religion and politics, the work of Eric Voegelin and totalitarianism.
Marcin Zarzecki (PhD) is a sociologist, Head of the Numerical Methodsand Statistical Analyses Laboratory at the UKSW, and Head of the Department of Methodology and Sociological Analysis Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the UKSW. He has been awarded the first-grade LUMEN Leaders in University Management Prize by the Polish Rectors Foundation.