Download or read book Grassroots Charisma written by Stephan Feuchtwang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, thereby producing a thorough re-working of the idea of charisma. The result is an intriguing study of the relationship between religious and political authority in a changing world.