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Losing reality : on cults, cultism, and the mindset of political and religious zealotry
\"A definitive account of the psychology of zealotry, from a National Book Award winner and a leading authority on the nature of cults, political absolutism, and mind control\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Effect of Organizational Fanaticism on Organizational Trust and Conflict Management: The Example of Accommodation Businesses
The study aims to determine the relationship between organizational fanaticism, organizational trust and conflict management, the effect of organizational fanaticism on organizational trust and conflict management, and the mediating role of conflict management in the effect of organizational fanaticism on organizational trust in accommodation businesses. The main purpose of the study is to understand the effects of the fanaticism that employees feel towards their organizations on the level of trust in the work environment and the way conflicts are handled. Determining the levels of relationship between these concepts is of critical importance in terms of the healthy functioning of organizational processes and increasing the motivation and productivity levels of employees. In the study,survey method based on qualitative and quantitative data was adopted. The participants consisted of 388 employees working at five-star accommodation businesses in Konya province of Turkey. The data were obtained via a questionnaire developed by the authors compiling from various scales and questionnaires. The results of the data analysis have revealed that organizational fanaticism directly affects both organizational trust and conflict management processes. In addition, it was determined that conflict management plays a mediating role in the effect of organizational fanaticism on organizational trust. These findings show that balanced commitment and an effective conflict management approach in organizations are decisive in creating a trust-based work environment. Therefore, it is of great importance for accommodation businesses to prioritize preventing excesses and creating a trust-oriented organizational culture when developing strategies to increase employee loyalty. These strategies provide a valuable contribution both to increasing organizational performance and to ensuring sustainable harmony in the work environment.
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Pogledi teologa in literarnega zgodovinarja Jožeta Rajhmana na slovenski katolicizem v reviji Znamenje (Ob 100-letnici njegovega rojstva)
V razpravi - Pogledi teologa in literarnega zgodovinarja Jožeta Rajhmana na slovenski katolicizem v reviji Znamenje - predstavim katolicizem, s katerim so se srečevali cerkveno verujoči na Slovenskem še več kot desetletje in pol po koncu 2. vatikanskega koncila (1965). Premik k smernicam 2. vatikanskega koncila je predstavljala ustanovitev revije Znamenje leta 1971, ki je izhajala do leta 2012. V njej je objavil pretežni del svojega knjižnega opusa tudi njen sodelavec in član uredniškega odbora Jože Rajhman. V razpravah se razkriva kot izjemni poznavalec slovenske in evropske reformacije ter pronicljivi raziskovalec zgodovine evropske in slovenske duhovnosti ter pastoralne prakse na naših tleh. Dogajanje v Cerkvi je Rajhman presojal z obzorij humanističnih znanosti in novih kontekstnih teologij, ki so se po 2. vatikanskem koncilu soočale s konkretnimi vprašanji udejanjanja evangeljskega krščanstva.
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The true believer : thoughts on the nature of mass movements
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises examining mass movements--from Christianity in its infancy to the national uprisings of modern times. His analysis of the psychology of mass movements is a brilliant and frightening study of the mind of the fanatic.
Extremism and the psychology of uncertainty (the claremont symposium on applied social psychology)
Extremism and the Psychology of Uncertainty showcases cutting-edge scientific research on the extent to which uncertainty may lead to extremism. Contributions come from leading international scholars who focus on a wide variety of forms, facets and manifestations of extremist behavior.
* Systematically integrates and explores the growing diversity of social psychological perspectives on the uncertainty extremism relationship
* Showcases contemporary cutting edge scientific research from leading international scholars
* Offers a broad perspective on extremism and focuses on a wide variety of different forms, facets and manifestations
* Accessible to social and behavioral scientists, policy makers and those with a genuine interest in understanding the psychology of extremism
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Under the banner of heaven : a story of violent faith
\"Jon Krakauer's literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In Under the Banner of Heaven he shifts his focus from extremes of physical adventure to extremes of religious belief in the United States. At the core of his book is an appalling double murder committed by a pair of brothers, Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they were commanded to kill by God. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this divinely inspired crime, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of polygamy, savage violence and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America's fastest-growing religion and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.\" \"Krakauer takes readers inside isolated communities in Canada, Mexico and the American West where some 40,000 Mormon Fundamentalists believe that the mainstream Mormon Church went unforgivably astray when it abandoned polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the leaders of these outlaw sects are zealots who answer only to God. Marrying prodigiously and with virtual impunity (the leader of the largest fundamentalist church took 75 'plural wives, ' several of who were wed to him when they were fourteen or fifteen and he was in his eighties), fundamentalist prophets exercise absolute control over the lives of their followers, and preach that any day now the world will be swept clean in a hurricane of fire, sparing only their most obedient adherents.\" \"Weaving the story of the Lafferty brothers and their fanatical brethren with a clear-eyed look at Mormonism's violent past, Krakauer examines the underbelly of the United States' most successful home-grown faith, and finds a distinctly American brand of religious extremism. The result is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of non-fiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behaviour.\"--Jacket.
Vampirism as Apocalyptic Hypocrisy in Midnight Mass
Ever since the vampire figure appeared on the literary scene, it has been examined in the context of Christianity, as this form of the revenant monster calls for interpretations that address questions of the soul as well as the phenomenon of resurrection and eternal (after)life. Parallel with this approach, the vampire body has also become a focused topic in Vampire Studies in the past few decades, especially in relation to the vampire lover in supernatural romances. Netflix’s Midnight Mass (2021) presents a new take on the vampire lore when it combines a special interest in the body in an extremely religious context. This paper argues that the newly interpreted revenant embodies the menace fundamentalism threatens people with, and it presents evil as a nearly unstoppable, spreading infection that roots in the inability of interpreting signs and phenomena correctly as a result of indoctrination. The show’s treatment of the blasphemous vampire reveals a criticism of an engagement with the scripture and the sacred that focuses on literal meaning (the body of the text, that is) as opposed to the spirit of the Bible, which is also reflected in the focus on the physical metamorphoses as a prerequisite of blind faith and as a motive that will bring complete moral and physical annihilation to the community. (IL)
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The epistemic challenge to longtermism
Longtermists
claim that what we ought to do is mainly determined by how our actions might affect the very long-run future. A natural objection to longtermism is that these effects may be nearly impossible to predict—perhaps so close to impossible that, despite the astronomical importance of the far future, the expected value of our present actions is mainly determined by near-term considerations. This paper aims to precisify and evaluate one version of this epistemic objection to longtermism. To that end, I develop two simple models for comparing ‘longtermist’ and ‘neartermist’ interventions, incorporating the idea that it is harder to make a predictable difference to the further future. These models yield mixed conclusions: if we simply aim to maximize expected value, and don’t mind premising our choices on minuscule probabilities of astronomical payoffs, the case for longtermism looks robust. But on some
prima facie
plausible empirical worldviews, the expectational superiority of longtermist interventions depends heavily on these ‘Pascalian’ probabilities. So the case for longtermism may depend either on plausible but non-obvious empirical claims or on a tolerance for Pascalian fanaticism.
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