Mind And Ideology - Tapa dura

The book offers an extensive background to the history, religion, politics, cognitive psychology, and anthropology that explains the behaviour of fanatical political movements and terrorism. This is not a book of theory, but of factual examples. The book examines human nature as it has been demonstrated, tested, and moulded in myriad established cultures and in special environments. The book lets one understand better what is happening in our world today. If a reader seeks a universal explanation or theory, he will need to formulate one himself from the data provided herein., About The Author:- The reader is offered, in a single book, an extensive background in the history, religion, politics, congnitive psychology, and anthropology that explains the behavior of fanatical political movements and terrorism. This is not a book of theory, but of facual examples. It examines human nature as it has been demonstrated, tested, and molded in myriad established cultures and in special environments. The book lets one better understand what is happening in our World today. If the reader seeks a universal explanation or theory, he will need to formulate it himself from the data herein., Contents:- The Nature of Man · Myth · National Character · Ideologies · Culture and Society · The Mass · Spirits and Isms · The Ideologue · The Cult · Authoritarianism · Millenarian Movements · Nationalism · The Seeds of Totalitarianism · Totalitarianism · Political Creeds · Mind Control · Converts and Fanatics · Terrorism · Summing Up · Bibliography.