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| Genre/Form: | Comparative studies |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter van der Veer; Hartmut Lehmann |
| ISBN: | 0691012334 9780691012339 0691012326 9780691012322 |
| OCLC Number: | 39727826 |
| Description: | vi, 231 pages : map ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | The moral state : religion, nation, and empire in victorian Britain and British India / Peter van der Veer -- Protestantism and British national identity, 1815-1945 / Hugh McLeod -- Race in Britain and India / Susan Bayly -- History, the nation, and religion : the transformations of the Dutch religious past / Peter van Rooden -- Religious and linguistic nationalism : the second partition of Bengal / Partha Chatterjee -- Nationalism, modernity, and Muslim identity in India before 1947 / Barbara D. Metcalf -- Memory, mourning, and national morality : Yasukuni shrine and the reunion of the state and religion in postwar Japan / Harry Harootunian -- Papists and beggars : national festivals and nation building in the Netherlands during the nineteenth century / Frans Groot -- Religion, nation-state, secularism / Talal Asad -- Goodness of nations / Benedict R. Anderson. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Peter van der Veer and Hartmut Lehmann. |
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Abstract:
This collection of essays on nationalism and religion in Europe and Asia challenges the prevailing view that Western modernism favours secularism and relegates religion to the purely private realm. It argues that religion and politics are mixed together in vital and complex ways in East and West.
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"Van der Veer and Lehmann have collected eminent scholars to focus on the manifold connections between religion and nationalism. . . . There are keen scholarly insights here that will appeal to a wide readership."-Prasenjit Duara, University of Chicago "Nation and Religion urges us to rethink the received historical interpretation that associates the onset of western modernity with the separation of the private world of religion from the public domain of politics."-Gyan Prakash, Princeton University Read more...
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