Nation and Religion
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Activism
Anglo-Catholicism
Arya Samaj
Aryan
Aryan race
Barbara D. Metcalf
British nationalism
Calvinism
Caste
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Catholic Church
Catholicism
Celibacy
Christianity
Church attendance
Clergy
Colonialism
Criticism
Dayananda Saraswati
Doctrine
East Bengal
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Evangelicalism
Hindu
Hindu nationalism
Hinduism
Ideology
Imperialism
Indian nationalism
Islam
Islamic revival
Islamism
Liberalism
Missionary
Modernity
Nation state
National identity
Nationalism
Nationality
Nativism (politics)
Nazism
Of Education
Patriotism
Peter van der Veer
Piety
Politician
Politics
Protestant work ethic
Protestantism
Public sphere
Religion
Religion in Berlin
Religiosity
Religious community
Religious nationalism
Religious organization
Secularism
Secularization
Separation of church and state
Sikh
Social theory
Spirituality
State religion
Swami Vivekananda
Tablighi Jamaat
Talal Asad
Theology
Ultramontanism
Western Europe
World War II
Writing
Yasukuni Shrine
Product details
- ISBN 9780691012322
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 02 May 1999
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Peter van der Veer is Professor of Comparative Religion and Director of the Research Center for Religion and Society at the University of Amsterdam. Hartmut Lehmann is Director of the Max Planck Institute for History in Göttingen.
