For God and Country

Religion and nationalism are both powerful and important markers of individual identity, but the relationship between the two has been a source of considerable debate. Much, if not most, of the early work done in Nationalism Studies has been based, at least implicitly, on the idea that religion, as...

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description Religion and nationalism are both powerful and important markers of individual identity, but the relationship between the two has been a source of considerable debate. Much, if not most, of the early work done in Nationalism Studies has been based, at least implicitly, on the idea that religion, as a genealogical carrier of identity, was displaced with the advent of secular modernity, which was caused by nationalism. Or, to put it another way, national identity, and its ideological manifestation nationalism, filled the void left in people’s self-identification as religion retreated in the face of modernity. Since at least the late 1990s, this view has been increasingly challenged by scholars trying to account for the apparent persistence of religious identities. Perhaps even more interestingly, scholars of both religion and nationalism have noted that these two kinds of self-identification, while sometimes being tense, as the earlier models explained, are also frequently coexistent or even mutually supportive. This collection of essays explores the current thinking about the relationship between religion and nationalism from a variety of perspectives, using a number of different case studies. What all these approaches have in common is their interest in complicating our understandings of nationalism as a primarily secular phenomenon by bringing religion back into the discussion.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-684602024-04-08T19:53:42Z For God and Country Mentzel, Peter C. Christian nationalism Protestantism evangelicalism ecumenical movement Reinhold Niebuhr Francis Miller Christianity and Crisis axial age kinship monolatry monotheism nation priest religion territory nationalism Tatar socialism Islamic reform Wahhabism religious nationalism American Buddhism God and Country minority religion in the U.S. Engaged Buddhism Romanitas Hellenitas Graecitas Hellene Greek Byzantine Empire identity consciousness religious rituals secular rituals profane rituals democratic faith civil religion civility moderation Orthodox Christianity autocephaly schism canon law church–state conflicts Buddhism Theravāda non-violence asceticism polytheism Burma Myanmar Islamism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs Religion and nationalism are both powerful and important markers of individual identity, but the relationship between the two has been a source of considerable debate. Much, if not most, of the early work done in Nationalism Studies has been based, at least implicitly, on the idea that religion, as a genealogical carrier of identity, was displaced with the advent of secular modernity, which was caused by nationalism. Or, to put it another way, national identity, and its ideological manifestation nationalism, filled the void left in people’s self-identification as religion retreated in the face of modernity. Since at least the late 1990s, this view has been increasingly challenged by scholars trying to account for the apparent persistence of religious identities. Perhaps even more interestingly, scholars of both religion and nationalism have noted that these two kinds of self-identification, while sometimes being tense, as the earlier models explained, are also frequently coexistent or even mutually supportive. This collection of essays explores the current thinking about the relationship between religion and nationalism from a variety of perspectives, using a number of different case studies. What all these approaches have in common is their interest in complicating our understandings of nationalism as a primarily secular phenomenon by bringing religion back into the discussion. 2021-05-01T15:10:37Z 2021-05-01T15:10:37Z 2021 book ONIX_20210501_9783039439058_206 9783039439058 9783039439065 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/68460 eng application/octet-stream Attribution 4.0 International https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3478 https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/3478 MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 10.3390/books978-3-03943-906-5 10.3390/books978-3-03943-906-5 46cabcaa-dd94-4bfe-87b4-55023c1b36d0 9783039439058 9783039439065 170 Basel, Switzerland open access
spellingShingle Christian nationalism
Protestantism
evangelicalism
ecumenical movement
Reinhold Niebuhr
Francis Miller
Christianity and Crisis
axial age
kinship
monolatry
monotheism
nation
priest
religion
territory
nationalism
Tatar
socialism
Islamic reform
Wahhabism
religious nationalism
American Buddhism
God and Country
minority religion in the U.S.
Engaged Buddhism
Romanitas
Hellenitas
Graecitas
Hellene
Greek
Byzantine Empire
identity
consciousness
religious rituals
secular rituals
profane rituals
democratic faith
civil religion
civility
moderation
Orthodox Christianity
autocephaly
schism
canon law
church–state conflicts
Buddhism
Theravāda
non-violence
asceticism
polytheism
Burma
Myanmar
Islamism
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
For God and Country
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topic Christian nationalism
Protestantism
evangelicalism
ecumenical movement
Reinhold Niebuhr
Francis Miller
Christianity and Crisis
axial age
kinship
monolatry
monotheism
nation
priest
religion
territory
nationalism
Tatar
socialism
Islamic reform
Wahhabism
religious nationalism
American Buddhism
God and Country
minority religion in the U.S.
Engaged Buddhism
Romanitas
Hellenitas
Graecitas
Hellene
Greek
Byzantine Empire
identity
consciousness
religious rituals
secular rituals
profane rituals
democratic faith
civil religion
civility
moderation
Orthodox Christianity
autocephaly
schism
canon law
church–state conflicts
Buddhism
Theravāda
non-violence
asceticism
polytheism
Burma
Myanmar
Islamism
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
topic_facet Christian nationalism
Protestantism
evangelicalism
ecumenical movement
Reinhold Niebuhr
Francis Miller
Christianity and Crisis
axial age
kinship
monolatry
monotheism
nation
priest
religion
territory
nationalism
Tatar
socialism
Islamic reform
Wahhabism
religious nationalism
American Buddhism
God and Country
minority religion in the U.S.
Engaged Buddhism
Romanitas
Hellenitas
Graecitas
Hellene
Greek
Byzantine Empire
identity
consciousness
religious rituals
secular rituals
profane rituals
democratic faith
civil religion
civility
moderation
Orthodox Christianity
autocephaly
schism
canon law
church–state conflicts
Buddhism
Theravāda
non-violence
asceticism
polytheism
Burma
Myanmar
Islamism
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
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