While the constitutions of Western liberal democracies pres… - Karla Poewe

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While the constitutions of Western liberal democracies preserve the freedom of new religions, I am not sure whether new religions, including New Age and neo-Paganism, preserve western liberal democracies. In Weimar they did not.

Karla Poewe

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Karla Poewe (born 1941) is an anthropologist and historian.

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The new religions founded in the pre-Nazi and Nazi years, especially Jakob Hauer’s German Faith Movement, would be a model for how German fascism distilled aspects of religious doctrine into political extremism.

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