Religion And National Identity

Author : John Carter Wood
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN 13 : 3647101494
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe written by John Carter Wood and published by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores how Christian individuals and institutions – whether Churches, church-related organisations, clergy, or lay thinkers – combined the topics of faith and national identity in twentieth-century Europe. "National identity" is understood in a broad sense that includes discourses of citizenship, narratives of cultural or linguistic belonging, or attributions of distinct, "national" characteristics. The collection addresses Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox perspectives, considers various geographical contexts, and takes into account processes of cross-national exchange and transfer. It shows how national and denominational identities were often mutually constitutive, at times leading to a strongly exclusionary stance against "other" national or religious groups. In different circumstances, religiously minded thinkers critiqued nationalism, emphasising the universalist strains of their faith, with varying degrees of success. Moreover, throughout the century, and especially since 1945, both church officials and lay Christians have had to come to terms with the relationship between their national and "European" identities and have sought to position themselves within the processes of Europeanisation. Various contexts for the negotiation of faith and nation are addressed: media debates, domestic and international political arenas, inner-denominational and ecumenical movements, church organisations, cosmopolitan intellectual networks and the ideas of individual thinkers.

Author : John Myhill
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 902722711X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East written by John Myhill and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at 'unification', based upon languages which vary greatly at the spoken level, e.g. German, Italian, Pan-Turkish and Arabic, have been associated with aggression, fascism and genocide, while those based upon relatively homogeneous spoken languages, e.g. Czech, Norwegian and Ukrainian, have resulted in national liberation and international stability. It is also shown that religion can be more important to national identity than language, but only for religious groups which were understood in premodern times to be national rather than universal or doctrinal, e.g. Jews, Armenians, Maronites, Serbs, Dutch and English; this is demonstrated with discussions of the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, the civil war in Lebanon and the breakup of Yugoslavia, the United Netherlands and the United Kingdom.

Author : Ian A. Morrison
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774861797
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moments of Crisis written by Ian A. Morrison and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past two decades, Québec has been racked by a series of controversies in which the religiosity of migrants and minorities has been represented as a threat to the province’s once staunchly Catholic, and now resolutely secular, identity. In Moments of Crises, Ian Morrison locates these debates within a longer history of crises within – and transformations of – Québécois identity, from the Conquest of New France in 1760 to contemporary times. He argues that rather than seeking to overcome these crises by reconsolidating national identity, Québec should look on them as opportunities to forge alternative conceptions of community, identity, and belonging.

Author : Frode Ulvund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, C. 1790-1960 written by Frode Ulvund and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hiroshi Kubota
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3825860434
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and National Identity in the Japanese Context written by Hiroshi Kubota and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses upon the relationship between religion and socio-cultural or socio-political aspects in the history of religions in Japan. Religious and ideological justifications in the course of forming a political and national identity, and the mutual relation between political, national and cultural issues can be noticed in every region of the world before the onset of secularization processes, but also in modern nation-states today. In Japan as well, just like in most modern societies, political, cultural and religious elements are closely interrelated. In a comparative approach the sixteen papers in this volume elucidate the intellectual undercurrent in Japanese history of putting positive perspectives on national achievements and cultural-religious uniqueness into service of establishing and refurbishing a national identity.

Author : Alistair Mutch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780748699155
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and National Identity written by Alistair Mutch and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presbyterianism has shaped Scotland and its impact on the world. Behind its beliefs lie some distinctive practices of governance which endure even when belief fades. These practices place a particular emphasis on the detailed recording of decisions and what we can term a 'systemic' form of accountability. This book examines the emergence and consolidation of such practices in the 18th century Church of Scotland. Using extensive archival research and detailed local case studies, it contrasts them to what is termed a 'personal' form of accountability in England in the same period. The wider impact of the systemic approach to governance and accountability, especially in the United States of America, is explored, as is the enduring impact on Scottish identity. This book offers a fresh perspective on the Presbyterian legacy in contemporary Scottish historiography, at the same time as informing current debates on national identity. It has a novel focus on religion as social practice, as opposed to belief or organization. It has a strong focus on Scotland, but in the context of Britain. 0It offers extensive archival work in the Church of Scotland records, with an emphasis on form as well as content. It provides a different focus on the Church of Scotland in the 18th century. It offers a detailed focus on local practice in the context of national debates.

Author : R. Rabil
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230339255
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion, National Identity, and Confessional Politics in Lebanon written by R. Rabil and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against a background of weak and contested national identity and capricious interaction between religious affiliation and confessional politics, this book illustrates in detailed analysis this "comprehensive" project of Islamism according to its ideological and practical evolutionary change.

Author : W. Spohn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230390773
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and National Identities in an Enlarged Europe written by W. Spohn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes changing relationships between religion and national identity in the course of European integration. Examining elite discourse, media debates and public opinions across Europe over a decade, it explores how accelerated European integration and Eastern enlargement have affected religious markers of collective identity.

Author : Joseph F. Byrnes
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780271027043
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catholic and French Forever written by Joseph F. Byrnes and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Catholic and French Forever Joseph Byrnes recounts the fights and reconciliations between French citizens who found Catholicism integral to their traditional French identity and those who found the continued presence of Catholicism an obstacle to both happiness and progress.

Author : Gerlachlus Duijzings
Publisher : C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
ISBN 13 : 9781850653929
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and the Politics of Identity in Kosovo written by Gerlachlus Duijzings and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kosovo is a frontier society where two Balkan nations, Albanian and Serb, as well as two religions, Islam and Christianity, clash. The tension between conflict and symbiosis lies at the core of this book.