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Demonstrating that in late modernity, parallel to rising nationalisms, there is a shift towards religious communities becoming the central axis for cultural organization and progressive thinking, this book presents Greece as a case study based on empirical field data from contemporary theology and religious education, and makes a unique contribution to ongoing debates about the public role of religion in contemporary Europe.

Nationalism --- Nationalism and religion --- Religious aspects. --- Orthodox Eastern Church --- Doctrines.

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'Unto thy seed I have given this land.' From the moment of God's covenant with Abraham in the Old Testament, the idea that a people are chosen by God has had a central role in shaping national identity. Chosen Peoples argues powerfully that sacred belief remains central to national identity, even in an increasingly secular, globalized modern world. In this important new study, Anthony D. Smith goes in search of the deep Judeo-Christian roots of the many manifestations of national identity. This rich and timely contribution to current debates about nationalism explains the complex historical reasons behind often violent modern conflicts around issues of land, culture, religion, and politics. Tracing the development of individual nations over many centuries, it offers fascinating insights into the religious and cultural foundations of countries such as Great Britain, the United States, Israel, France, and Germany. The argument draws on a wide range of examples from historic landscapes in Ireland, Switzerland and Egypt, myths of Arthurian Britain, Holy Russia, and Byzantium, through memories of a 'Golden Age', to the modern commemoration of the 'Glorious Dead', and of victims of war.

Covenants --- Election (Theology). --- Messianism, Political. --- Nationalism --- Political messianism. --- Religious aspects. --- Election (Theology) --- Alliances (Religion) --- Election (Théologie) --- Messianisme politique --- Election (Théologie) --- Political messianism --- Messianism, Political --- Messianism --- Nationalism and religion --- Predestination --- Salvation --- Covenants (Religion) --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Nationalisme --- Aspect religieux

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The Construction of Nationhood, first published in 1997, is a thorough re-analysis of both nationalism and nations. In particular it challenges the current 'modernist' orthodoxies of such writers as Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner, and it offers a systematic critique of Hobsbawm's best-selling Nations and Nationalism since 1780. In opposition to a historiography which limits nations and nationalism to the eighteenth century and after, as an aspect of 'modernisation', Professor Hastings argues for a medieval origin to both, dependent upon biblical religion and the development of vernacular literatures. While theorists of nationhood have paid mostly scant attention to England, the development of the nation-state is seen here as central to the subject, but the analysis is carried forward to embrace many other examples, including Ireland, the South Slavs and modern Africa, before concluding with an overview of the impact of religion, contrasting Islam with Christianity, while evaluating the ability of each to support supra-national political communities.

Nationalism --- Nationalism and religion --- History. --- Religious aspects. --- Hobsbawm, E. J. --- History --- Religious aspects --- Nationalisme --- Histoire --- Aspect religieux --- Europe --- Religious studies --- National movements --- Arts and Humanities --- Nationalism - History. --- Nationalism - Religious aspects.

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From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of modernity in early twentieth-century Japan. He uses close readings and translations of texts and poems to suggest that the school's interest in romanticism stemmed from its attempt to surmount the "cultural crisis" of lost traditions. This attempt to overcome modernity eventually reduced the movement's earlier critical impulses to expressions of nationalist longing.

Hinduism --- Islam --- Nationalism --- Religion and politics --- 895.6 --- 895.6 Japanse literatuur --- Japanse literatuur --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Nationalism and religion --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religions --- Muslims --- Brahmanism --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Romanticism --- Japan --- Intellectual life --- Romanticism - Japan --- Nationalism - Japan --- Japan - Intellectual life - 20th century

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Sociology of religion --- Political sociology --- 321.01 --- Nationalism --- -#SBIB:316.331H332 --- #SBIB:321H81 --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Algemene staatsleer. Politieke filosofie. Staatsleer. Staatstheorie --- Religious aspects --- Godsdienst en staat --- Westerse politieke en sociale theorieën vanaf de 19e eeuw : nationalisme, corporatisme, fascisme, nationaal socialisme, rechtsextremisme, populisme --- Religious aspects. --- 321.01 Algemene staatsleer. Politieke filosofie. Staatsleer. Staatstheorie --- #SBIB:316.331H332 --- Nationalism and religion