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Croatian Political Science Review, Vol. 35 No. 4, 1998.

Original scientific paper

DEMOCRACY AND CHARISMA

Robert Blažević ; Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

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Abstract

The term charisma was first used in theological writings. In the Old-Testament literature, the term occurs only twice. However, in the New Testament it occurs seventeen times. It is used by St. Paul in the First Letter to the Corinthians, in the Letter to the Romans, in the Second Letter to the Corinthians. In the political context, the word charisma has been lavishly used in the analyses of national-socialist and stalinist regimes. Charismatic legitimation is, primarily, a feature of various types of dictatorships and not of democratic, constitutional states. This is probably why charismatic aspects are so notorious in most contemporary social theory.

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Hrčak ID:

32221

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/32221

Publication date:

6.12.1998.

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