Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations

Introduction: Historiographical and theoretical aspects of Weber’s concept of charismatic leadership
Jan Willem Stutje

Part I: The charismatic family

Chapter 1. A New Kind of Force: Examining charisma in the light of Gandhi’s moral authority
Dilip Simeon

Chapter 2. An Unlikely Charismatic Leader: D.F. Malan in a Weberian light
Lindie Koorts

Chapter 3. Bearded, Attractive and Beloved: The Charisma of Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (1846–1919)
Jan Willem Stutje

Chapter 4. Errico Malatesta and Charismatic Leadership
Carl Levy

Chapter 5. Pasionaria: a Case of Charisma through Representation
Juan Avilés

Chapter 6. Mao Zedong: Charismatic Leadership and the Contradictions of Socialist Revolution
Arif Dirlik

Part II: Charismatic Observations

Chapter 7. Charismatic Leaders, Political Religion and Social Movements. Western Europe at the End of the Nineteenth Century
Henk te Velde

Chapter 8. ‘Je ne sais quoi’: Some reflections on the study of charisma
Marc Reynebeau

Chapter 9. Incendiary Personalities: Uncommon Comments on Charisma in Social Movements
Thomas Welskopp

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Jan Willem Stutje is a research fellow at The Institute of Biography at the University of Groningen. From 2001–05, he was a fellow at the International Institute of Social History and at the Free University of Brussels. He is the author of several biographies including Ernest Mandel: A Rebel’s Dream Deferred (Verso 2009).

Reviews

“This volume’s strength lies in its broad range of historical case studies combined with a robust collection of essays addressing conceptual and theoretical aspects of charismatic leadership”  ·  Anthropological Notebooks “This is an interesting and stimulating collection of articles which, taken together, cover both conceptional/theoretical and empirical aspects of the role and features of charisma in general, and charisma in social movements in particular. The range of case studies is impressive.”  ·  Dieter Rucht, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialwissenschaft (WZB)