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The Apocalyptic Imagination And The Fundamentalist Mindset, Charles B. Strozier
The Apocalyptic Imagination And The Fundamentalist Mindset, Charles B. Strozier
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article explores the psychological meanings of the apocalyptic imagination in what I call a fundamentalist mindset. That mindset has its own long history but is newly relevant in the nuclear age. We no longer need God to bring about ultimate destruction. There are many facets of the fundamentalist mindset (for example, its intense literalism), but the focus in the article is on two: its kairotic sense of time and its rampant paranoia. These two facets interact synergistically around violence that is experienced by those who revel in it as moral in a totalistic sense. Killing becomes healing. The evil …
Trends. After The Deluge: Psychology And Post-Totalitarianism, Ibpp Editor
Trends. After The Deluge: Psychology And Post-Totalitarianism, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This Trends article discusses the psychological impacts – both positive and negative - of the transition from totalitarian rule in Iraq following the US-led military intervention against Saddam Hussein’s regime.