Appendix: Introduction to TMPR special issue 6.3, ‘Political Religions and the Sacralisation of Politics’

Abstract The following was due to appear as the Introduction to the six articles of the special issue on: ‘Political Religions and the Sacralisation of Politics’ published in TMPR issue 6.3. Owing to an oversight in the last stages of production, the introduction by Peter Lambert and Jie‐Hyun Lim was omitted, and is republished here as an Appendix to the double issue 8.3/4 on the occasion of the publication of five more articles based on the same conference in a featured section. (See the Editorial Statement and the Introduction by Robert Mallet and Peter Lambert. The original articles can be obtained via the Web at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title∼db=all∼content=g727349332.) Its relevance to the current issue lies mainly in the organiser’s explanation of the aims of the RICH project on mass dictatorship, which has a direct bearing on the featured theme of ‘heroisation’. The editors would like to apologise to Peter Lambert, Jie‐Hyun Lim and RICH for the original error. RG