Religions politiques, religions séculières Le totalitarisme est-il un phénomène religieux ?

The religious aspects of Nazi ideology are both empirically obvious and theoretically bewildering. What are the main alternatives in the framing of religious interpretations of totalitarianism? Under which ­conditions can ­concepts like « secular religion » or the « sacralization of politics » be useful for understanding history? The article explores these issues through the works of Léon Poliakov, Emilio Gentile, and Marcel Gauchet.