Nation and religion : perspectives on Europe and Asia
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Nation and religion : perspectives on Europe and Asia
Princeton University Press, c1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-222) and index
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Description
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 both East and West. The book focuses on four societies: India, Japan, Britain and the Netherlands. It argues that religion and nationalism in these societies combined to produce such notions as imperialism, the possibility of national revival, and political leadership as a form of salvation. The text 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction 2 The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire in Victorian Britain and British India 3 Protestantism and British National Identity, 1815-1945 4 Race in Britain and India 5 History, the Nation, and Religion: The Transformations of the Dutch Religious Past 6 On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal 7 Nationalism, Modernity, and Muslim Identity in India before 1947 8 Memory, Mourning, and National Morality: Yasukuni Shrine and the Reunion of State and Religion in Postwar Japan 9 Papists and Beggars: National Festivals and Nation Building in the Netherlands during the Nineteenth Century 10 Religion, Nation-State, Secularism 11 The Goodness of Nations Bibliography List of Contributors Index
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