Nation and Religion (eBook)

Perspectives on Europe and Asia

Hartmut Lehmann, Peter van der Veer (Herausgeber)

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2020
208 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21957-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.10.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 1 map
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: activism • Akihito, Emperor • Anglo-Catholicism • anti-catholicism • Arnold, Thomas • aryan • aryan race • arya samaj • Barbara D. Metcalf • Bengal: culture • bengalis • Brahmans • British Empire • British nationalism • british people • Bunyan, John • Calvinism • Casanova, José • caste • Catholic Church • Catholicism • celibacy • Christianity • Church attendance • Church of England • Citizenship • Clergy • Colley, Linda • Colonialism • Communalism (political philosophy) • Criticism • Das, Chittaranjan • Dayananda Saraswati • dichotomy • Disraeli, Benjamin • Doctrine • East Bengal • Ethnology • evangelicalism • Foucault, Michel • Fundamentalism • Geertz, Clifford • Gladstone, William • Grant, Charles • Habermas, Jürgen • Hashim, Abdul • Hindu • Hinduism • Hindu nationalism • Ideology • imperialism • Indian Nationalism • Individualism • Institution • Ireland: Catholics • Islam • Islamic revival • Islamism • Jinnah, Muhammad Ali • Kaul, Shiv Kishan • Liberalism • Mahatma Gandhi • Maududi, Maulana • Mauss, Marcel • Methodism • Missionary • Modernity • Muslim • Napoleon Bonaparte • National Consciousness • national identity • Nationalism • Nationalist Movement • Nationality • Nationalization • nation state • Nativism (politics) • Nazism • of education • Omura Masajiro • Oxford Movement • Oxford University Press • Partition of Bengal (1905) • Patriotism • Peter van der Veer • piety • Political parties • Politician • Politics • Protestantism • Protestant Work Ethic • Public sphere • Ramakrishna Mission • Rammohan Roy • Religion • Religion in Berlin • Religiosity • Religious Community • religious nationalism • Religious Organization • Sanskrit • Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes • Secularism • Secularization • separation of church and state • Shinto • Sikh • Sikhs • Social Theory • Society of Jesus • Spirituality • State (polity) • State Religion • Suffrage • supremacism • Swadeshi movement • Swami Vivekananda • Tablighi Jamaat • Talal Asad • Theology • The Other Hand • Tilak, Pal Gangadhar • Ultramontanism • Weber, Max • West Bengal • Western Europe • World War II • Writing • Yasukuni shrine
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21957-5 / 0691219575
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21957-8 / 9780691219578