381. Kaminsky, Howard. "The Free Spirit in the Hussite Rebellion." In Millennial Dreams in Action edited by Sylvia L. Thrupp. The Hague: Mouton, 1962a: 166-68.
A history of Hussitism, together with a description of its doctrine and practices, which include ritual humiliation similar to that found in contemporary movements: [cf. Lebra, 1972, on ritual humiliation: item 416.]
382. ²²². "The Problem of Explanation." In Millennial Dreams in Action edited by Sylvia L. Thrupp. The Hague: Mouton, 1962b: 215-17.
Kaminsky advocates an analytic approach taking
"the evidence of the movement itself as grounds for inference about the relationship of the movement to society, and about the psychology of the members. The movement always subscribes to an ideology that empties the existing social order of all value; it also invariably takes the form of a physical movement²withdrawal from the existing order." (p. 215.)
The fantasy of ideology and the lack of social order make the movement plastic. So the typical member is "obviously" a person alienated from society who (perhaps for the moment) lacks critical acuity, realism, and intellectual honesty. He suggests constructing typologies of alienation and withdrawal.
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