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Nation and Religion

Author : Peter van der Veer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691219575
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Nation and Religion written by Peter van der Veer and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity--characterized by the rise of nationalism, the dominance of capitalism, and the emergence of powerful state institutions--favors secularism and relegates religion to the purely private realm. This collection of essays on nationalism and religion in Europe and Asia challenges that view. Contributors show that religion and politics are mixed together in complex and vitally important ways not just in the East, but in the West as well. The book focuses on four societies: India, Japan, Britain, and the Netherlands. It shows that religion and nationalism in these societies combined to produce such notions as the nation being chosen for a historical task (imperialism, for example), the possibility of national revival, and political leadership as a form of salvation. The volume also examines the qualities of religious discourse and practice that can be used for nationalist purposes, paying special attention to how religion can help to give meaning to sacrifice in national struggle. The book's comparative approach underscores that developments in colonizing and colonized countries, too often considered separately, are subtly interrelated. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Benedict R. Anderson, Talal Asad, Susan Bayly, Partha Chatterjee, Frans Groot, Harry Harootunian, Hugh McLeod, Barbara Metcalf, and Peter van Rooden.

Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas

Author : Henry Goldschmidt
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 019514919X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas written by Henry Goldschmidt and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-09-02 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?

Author : John Fea
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611640881
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? written by John Fea and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fea offers an even-handed primer on whether America was founded to be a Christian nation, as many evangelicals assert, or a secular state, as others contend. He approaches the title's question from a historical perspective, helping readers see past the emotional rhetoric of today to the recorded facts of our past. Readers on both sides of the issues will appreciate that this book occupies a middle ground, noting the good points and the less-nuanced arguments of both sides and leading us always back to the primary sources that our shared American history comprises.

Religion and Nation

Author : Kathryn Spellman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571815774
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Nation written by Kathryn Spellman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Given the lack of information about this population in the Westrn world, the focused materials presented in this book help build a better information base on the diverse practices and beliefs of Iranian outside their homeland." - Choice "[This] first full-length study of the Iranian Muslim diaspora in Britain . . . enhances our empirical and theoretical understanding." - The Muslim World Book Review An estimated 75,000 Iranians emigrated to Britain after the 1979 revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic. They are politically, religiously, socio-economically and ethnically heterogeneous, and have found themselves in the ongoing process of settlement. The aim of this book is to explore facets of this process by examining the ways in which religious traditions and practices have been maintained, negotiated and rejected by Iranians from Muslim backgrounds and how they have served as identity-building vehicles during the course of migration, in relation to the political, economic, and social situation in Iran and Britain. While the ethnographic focus is on Iranians, this book touches on more general questions associated with the process of migration, transnational societies, Diasporas, and religious as well as ethnic minorities. Kathryn Spellman received her MSc. and Ph.D. in Politics and Sociology at Birkbeck College, University of London, where she is currently an Honorary Research Fellow. She is a lecturer of sociology at Huron International University in London and Syracuse University (London Campus). Kathryn is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the Centre of Migration Studies Department at the University of Sussex.

One Nation, Divisible

Author : Mark Silk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742558458
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book One Nation, Divisible written by Mark Silk and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Nation, Divisible shows how geographical religious diversity has shaped public culture in eight distinctive regions of the country and how regional differences influence national politics. --from publisher description.

Nationalism

Author : Carlton J. H. Hayes
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1412862353
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Nationalism written by Carlton J. H. Hayes and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic volume tells the story of nationalism, the fusion of patriotism with ethnic consciousness. It documents the emergence of nationalism in the modern world and the way that nationalism has become a substitute for religion over the past two centuries. Nationalism, for Hayes, draws its power from cultural and social factors, primarily language. Second to language are historical forces that stem from an accumulation of a people’s remembered or imagined experiences. Hayes bases his observations on historic European examples. He sees nationalism as a religion, reacting against historic Christianity and the values of the Western tradition. This combination of powerful forces stresses neither charity nor the brotherhood of man. Historically it has rationalized selfishness, intolerance, and violence. The growth of nationalism, Hayes observed, brings not peace but war. As a testament to its timeless insight, Nationalism remains an informative guide despite the failure of globalization, the Internet, and international communications and connectivity to move us beyond the bonds of nationalism. Hayes’s linking of the potent forces of nationalism and religion still rings true: the insurgency in Ukraine, the unrest in the Middle East, and tribal conflicts in Africa are all undergirded by nationalist sentiments.

One Nation Under God

Author : Kevin M. Kruse
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465040640
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book One Nation Under God written by Kevin M. Kruse and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The provocative and authoritative history of the origins of Christian America in the New Deal era We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s. To fight the "slavery" of FDR's New Deal, businessmen enlisted religious activists in a campaign for "freedom under God" that culminated in the election of their ally Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. The new president revolutionized the role of religion in American politics. He inaugurated new traditions like the National Prayer Breakfast, as Congress added the phrase "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and made "In God We Trust" the country's first official motto. Church membership soon soared to an all-time high of 69 percent. Americans across the religious and political spectrum agreed that their country was "one nation under God." Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how an unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.

Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective

Author : J. Christopher Soper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107189438
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective written by J. Christopher Soper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.

We God's People

Author : Jocelyne Cesari
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108604080
Total Pages : 765 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book We God's People written by Jocelyne Cesari and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cesari argues that both religious and national communities are defined by the three Bs: belief, behaviour and belonging. By focusing on the ways in which these three Bs intersect, overlap or clash, she identifies the patterns of the politicization of religion, and vice versa, in any given context. Her approach has four advantages: firstly, it combines an exploration of institutional and ideational changes across time, which are usually separated by disciplinary boundaries. Secondly, it illustrates the heuristic value of combining qualitative and quantitative methods by statistically testing the validity of the patterns identified in the qualitative historical phase of the research. Thirdly, it avoids reducing religion to beliefs by investigating the significance of the institution-ideas connections, and fourthly, it broadens the political approach beyond state-religion relations to take into account actions and ideas conveyed in other arenas such as education, welfare, and culture.

Religion and the American Nation

Author : John Frederick Wilson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820322896
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Religion and the American Nation written by John Frederick Wilson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively survey ranges across several centuries of change in the ways historians have thought and written about religion in America. In particular, John F. Wilson is concerned with how historians have perceived religion's relationship to the political organization of our country. He begins by establishing the genesis of religion as a specialized area of American history in the nineteenth century, and then discusses religious history's development through the early 1970s. Along the way he considers topics ranging from the "long shadow" the Puritans have cast over our comprehension of religion in American history to the ascendancy of such institutions as the University of Chicago as systematizing forces in religious scholarship. Wilson then discusses how scholars, since the early 1970s, have sought to ground their accounts of American religious trends and events in ways that either avoid or transcend references to Puritanism. The rise of comparative religious histories, Wilson notes, has been the welcome outcome. Moving into the present, Wilson explores a range of behaviors, if not beliefs, that might be understood as religious aspects of American life, and looks at how the spiritual or religious dimensions of American cultural life have been expressed in gnosticism, the mass media, and consumerism. One commentator, Wilson notes, suggested that there are no longer any religions as such in America today, but only religious "brands." Wilson himself sees America as a place where there is room for Old World traditions and new spiritual initiatives, a modern nation remarkably hospitable to ancient preoccupations.

Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism

Author : G. Ognjenovic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113747789X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Politicization of Religion, the Power of Symbolism written by G. Ognjenovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.

Bad Religion

Author : Ross Douthat
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 143917833X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Bad Religion written by Ross Douthat and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the decline of Christianity in America since the 1950s, posing controversial arguments about the role of heresy in the nation's downfall while calling for a revival of traditional Christian practices.

Politics of Religion and Nationalism

Author : Ferran Requejo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317566068
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Politics of Religion and Nationalism written by Ferran Requejo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are numerous examples of how religion and nationalism intertwine. In some cases, a common religion is the fundamental marker of a nation’s identity, whereas in others secular nationalism tries to hold together people of different religious beliefs. This book examines the link between religion and nationalism in contemporary polities. By exploring case studies on India, Russia, Israel, Canada, Chechnya, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Belgium, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Sri Lanka, Catalonia and the Basque Country, it seeks to understand the relationship between these two key societal forms of diversity and assess the interaction between religious and nationalist perspectives. Expert contributors examine a variety of phenomena, including secular nationalism, secessionism, and polities in which religious pluralism is evolving. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, religion and politics, nationalism, federalism, secession, political philosophy, racial and ethnic politics and comparative politics.

Conceived in Doubt

Author : Amanda Porterfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226675122
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Conceived in Doubt written by Amanda Porterfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have long acknowledged a deep connection between evangelical religion and democracy in the early days of the republic. This is a widely accepted narrative that is maintained as a matter of fact and tradition—and in spite of evangelicalism’s more authoritarian and reactionary aspects. In Conceived in Doubt, Amanda Porterfield challenges this standard interpretation of evangelicalism’s relation to democracy and describes the intertwined relationship between religion and partisan politics that emerged in the formative era of the early republic. In the 1790s, religious doubt became common in the young republic as the culture shifted from mere skepticism toward darker expressions of suspicion and fear. But by the end of that decade, Porterfield shows, economic instability, disruption of traditional forms of community, rampant ambition, and greed for land worked to undermine heady optimism about American political and religious independence. Evangelicals managed and manipulated doubt, reaching out to disenfranchised citizens as well as to those seeking political influence, blaming religious skeptics for immorality and social distress, and demanding affirmation of biblical authority as the foundation of the new American national identity. As the fledgling nation took shape, evangelicals organized aggressively, exploiting the fissures of partisan politics by offering a coherent hierarchy in which God was king and governance righteous. By laying out this narrative, Porterfield demolishes the idea that evangelical growth in the early republic was the cheerful product of enthusiasm for democracy, and she creates for us a very different narrative of influence and ideals in the young republic.

Letter to a Christian Nation

Author : Sam Harris
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307265773
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Letter to a Christian Nation written by Sam Harris and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 2006 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A criticism of Christianity from the secularist point of view.

Nation Dance

Author : Patrick Taylor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253338358
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Nation Dance written by Patrick Taylor and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the ongoing interaction of rich and diverse cultural traditions from Cuba and Jamaica to Guyana and Surinam, Nation Dance addresses some of the major contemporary issues in the study of Caribbean religion and identity. The book’s three sections move from a focus on spirituality and healing, to theology in social and political context, and on to questions of identity and diaspora. The book begins with the voices of female practitioners and then offers a broad, interdisciplinary examination of Caribbean religion and culture. Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all addressed, with specific reflections on Santería, Palo Monte, Vodou, Winti, Obeah, Kali Mai, Orisha work, Spiritual Baptist faith, Spiritualism, Rastafari, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and liberation theology. Some essays are based on fieldwork, archival research, and textual or linguistic analysis, while others are concerned with methodological or theoretical issues. Contributors include practitioners and scholars, some very established in the field, others with fresh, new approaches; all of them come from the region or have done extensive fieldwork or research there. In these essays the poetic vitality of the practitioner’s voice meets the attentive commitment of the postcolonial scholar in a dance of "nations" across the waters.

Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies

Author : Cheng-tian Kuo
Publisher : Religion and Society in Asia
ISBN 13 : 9789462984394
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies written by Cheng-tian Kuo and published by Religion and Society in Asia. This book was released on 2017 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. On the one hand, state policies toward religions in these societies are deciphered and their implications for religious freedom and regional stability are evaluated. On the other hand, Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam and folk religions are respectively analyzed in terms of their theological, organizational and political responses to the nationalist modernity projects of these states. What is new in this book on Religion and Nationalism in Chinese Societies is that the Chinese state has strengthened its control over religion to an unprecedented level. In particular, the Chinese state has almost completed its construction of a state religion called Chinese Patriotism. But at the same time, what is also new is the emergence of democratic civil religions in these Chinese societies.