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