Revisiting Gustave Le Bon’s crowd theory in light of present-day critique

Sport in Society ◽

10.1080/17430437.2017.1232352 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (12) ◽

pp. 1838-1851

Author(s):

Rasmus Beedholm Laursen ◽

Verner Møller

Keyword(s):

Crowd Theory

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Crowds and Power in the Early Palestinian Tradition

Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus ◽

10.1163/17455197-01802003 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 124-140

Author(s):

Robert J. Myles

Keyword(s):

New Testament ◽

Historical Change ◽

Historical Jesus ◽

Crowd Theory

This article draws on critical crowd theory to explore how historical Jesus research can benefit from a more robust understanding of the crowds that engulf Jesus as subjects of historical change. Conventional approaches to the crowds within New Testament scholarship are complicit in heightening Jesus’ individual exceptionalism. Rather than envisaging the crowds as part of the anonymous background to Jesus’ ministry, or as a literary invention by the Gospel authors, we should instead regard the crowds as a collective expression of underlying social, political, and economic antagonisms.

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Letting the readers have a say: Crowd theory in collection development

College & Research Libraries News ◽

10.5860/crln.79.9.502 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 79 (9) ◽

pp. 502

Author(s):

Jessica Strong ◽

Quinn Galbraith

Keyword(s):

Collection Development ◽

Research Needs ◽

Crowd Theory ◽

Book Covers ◽

Academic Resources

One of the pressing concerns for academic and research librarians is collection development, or choosing and purchasing new books for the library. Librarians spend countless hours scanning through system-recommended book titles, trying to determine which ones the students will use and benefit from as academic resources. Do students look at book covers more than at content, for instance? Do they choose books based on five-star Amazon reviews? Do they prefer books with interesting titles or interesting descriptions? Every year we do our best to decide what will be most useful for students and their research needs.

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Crowd Theory Makes its Way in the World: The Le Bon Phenomenon

The Crowd and the Mob (Routledge Revivals) ◽

10.4324/9780203835531-13 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 159-189

Keyword(s):

The World ◽

Crowd Theory

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Christ aux Outrages by Henry De Groux: Fin de Siècle Religion, Art Criticism, and the Sociology of the Crowd

Religion and the Arts ◽

10.1163/156852903322694645 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 275-298

Author(s):

Nancy Davenport

Keyword(s):

Religious Orientation ◽

Art Criticism ◽

Emile Zola ◽

Fin De Siecle ◽

Religious Art ◽

Fin De Siècle ◽

Crowd Theory

AbstractThe Belgian symbolist painter, Henry De Groux (1866-1930), produced in his life one masterwork, Christ aux Outrages (1888-1889), a vast painting (293-363 cm.) which both embodies his own tormented nature and that of many similarly unsettled fin de siècle Catholics in that age of Positivism, secularization, European sabre rattling, and anarchism. Following its success in the Salon Triennal in Brussels, Henry De Groux, financed by King Leopold II of the Belgians, brought his painting to Paris in 1890 where it was exhibited in the Salon des Arts Liberaux, after being rejected by the salon jury. The image of a timorous, bound, and defenseless Christ and a savagely screaming mob of women, dogs, and children repelled faint-hearted academically-minded critics concerned with religious art and moved the ardent and orthodox. While these writers of religious orientation had their own reasons for praise and blame, this research considers the connection between the painting and the dominant concern among socialists such as Gustave Le Bon in Le Psychologie des Foules (1895) and novelists such as Emile Zola in Germinal and other of his novel for "Crowd Theory." It is the fearful and irrepressible crowd attacking Christ, it is argued, that gave Christ aux Outrages its peculiar significance in fin de siècle Paris.

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