Chapter 1 Introduction: Politics and Religion

Chapter 2 Religion and Politics: In Search of Resemblances

Chapter 3 The Religious Side of Democracy: Early Socialism, Twenty-first-century Populism and the Sacralization of Politics

Chapter 4 A Dangerous Type of Politics? Politics and Religion in Early Mass Organizations: The Anglo-American World, c . 1830

Chapter 5 De-sanctifying Affairs of State: The Politics of Religion in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)

Chapter 7 A Grassroots Sacred Socialist History: Dutch Social Democrats (1894–1920)

Chapter 8 Nationalism as a Political Religion: The Sacralization of the Irish Nation

Chapter 9 The German Nation as a Secular Religion in the First World War? About the Problem of Unity in Modern German History

Chapter 10 History or Civil Religion? The Uses of Lincoln’s ‘Last Best Hope of Earth’

Chapter 11 Revolutionary Mystique: Religious Undertones in the Russian Revolution of 1917

Chapter 12 The Belief in Disbelief: Anticlericalism and the Sacralization of Politics in Spain (1900–39)

Chapter 13 Concluding Remarks