totalism in a sentence

1. Even the church itself is its own totalism.

2. 5 Theories of totalism and the protean self

3. Religious totalism: gentle and ungentle persuasion under the first amendment.

4. van Gelder: I’ve heard you use the term totalism describing pharaohs’ roles in the world.

5. And all such approaches involving totalism or fundamentalism are doubly dangerous in a nuclear age.

6. During adult life, individual totalism takes on new contours as it becomes associated with new ideological interests.

7. THE IDEAS THAT I hope will not be locked in rest on a philosophical foundation that I sometimes call cybernetic totalism.

8. The cultic spirit and totalism go hand in hand; Introvigne compares Jehovah's Witnesses with Communism and National-Socialism:

9. Totalitarian regimes are always afraid of artists because artists are always violating the limits of what the totalism says is possible.

10. It may become part of the configuration of personal emotions, messianic ideas, and organized mass movement which I have described as ideological totalism.

11. In this way, the philosopher kings of modern ideological totalism reinforce their authority by claiming to share in the rich and respected heritage of natural science.”

12. Totalism, a word which he first used in Thought Reform, is Lifton's term for the characteristics of ideological movements and organizations that desire total control over human behavior and thought.

13. And like the “enthusiasm” with which it is often associated, totalism is more apt to be present during the early phases of mass movements than later — Communist China in the 1950s was generally more totalist than Soviet Russia.

14. For in identifying, on the basis of this study of thought reform, features common to all expressions of ideological totalism, I wish to suggest a set of criteria against which any environment may be judged - a basis for answering the ever-recurring question: "Isn't this just like 'brainwashing'?"