Nation and Religion Perspectives on Europe and Asia

Name: Nation and Religion Perspectives on Europe and Asia
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ISBN: 9780691012322

ISBN-10: 0691012326

ISBN-13: 9780691012322

Edition: 1999

Authors: Peter van der Veer, Hartmut Lehmann, Peter van der Veer

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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…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 5/2/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.748



Acknowledgments



Introduction



The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire in Victorian Britain and British India



Protestantism and British National Identity, 1815-1945



Race in Britain and India



History, the Nation, and Religion: The Transformations of the Dutch Religious Past



On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal



Nationalism, Modernity, and Muslim Identity in India before 1947



Memory, Mourning, and National Morality: Yasukuni Shrine and the Reunion of State and Religion in Postwar Japan



Papists and Beggars: National Festivals and Nation Building in the Netherlands during the Nineteenth Century



Religion, Nation-State, Secularism



The Goodness of Nations


Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index