Whatever Christian characteristic the LRA may have had also fell away to be replaced by a personality cult centred on Kony.
This would bar the two rivals, who have dominated Bangladeshi politics since 1991, from the election the army-backed government promises for December.The parties, both personality cults centred on the jailed leaders, are acting tough.
But there is undoubtedly a personality cult centred on the current president herself.
It does appear, moreover, that those who do describe themselves as philosophical anthropologists remain committed to working out a conception of human personality that centres on the notion of a soul-mind, as well as on the various notions of intellectual, moral, and spiritual life that traditionally have been associated with it.
As at previous elections, the 2014 contest culminated in a contest between two loosely knit and personality-centred camps at the major hotels in the capital, Honiara.
In addition, the president, Mahinda Rajapakse, has a personality-centred style of leadership that does not seem suited to ceding power to provincial authorities.
Although the term soft news was originally synonymous with feature stories placed in newspapers or television newscasts for human interest, the concept expanded to include a wide range of media outlets that present more personality-centred stories.
ReprintsFive years after leaving office, Mr Chirac had already become the most popular political personality on the centre-right.
The hit and miss that I had come to accept as standard in my classroom was the result of me allowing my personality to take centre stage.
The Hatch opened its doors early last year and is the brainchild of Matt Verity, co-founder of TrueView, an online dating app that aims to create conversations and "showcase personalities", rather than being centred on flicking through pictures of people, à la Tinder and Happn.
In the 19th century the interest in Johnson centred on his personality, the subject of Boswell's biography.
