TY - BOOK ID - 2971187 TI - Protestant Nations Redefined PY - 2005 VL - v. 109 SN - 9004144854 9047415671 9789004144859 9789047415671 PB - Leiden;Boston BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism KW - Rhetoric KW - Nationalisme KW - Rhétorique KW - Religious aspects KW - Church of England KW - History KW - Gereformeerde Kerk in de Nederlanden KW - Svenska kyrkan KW - Christianity KW - Aspect religieux KW - Histoire KW - Christianisme KW - Protestantism. KW - Rhétorique KW - 18th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2971187 AB - This volume reconstructs the various meanings attached to the concepts of nation and fatherland in eighteenth-century English, Dutch and Swedish political preaching. After discussing sermons as a medium of national ideology, it analyses the decline of the Israelite prototype of nation, the changing relationship between religious and national communities, international Protestantism, the weakening stereotype of popery, redefinitions of the Protestant monarchy, and the diversification of national vocabulary. It also compares the rise of non-theological languages of classical patriotism, freedom, economy and nature in three political cultures, revealing how the secular worship of nation arose even within the public presentation of religion. As post-nationalist comparative history, this study will be welcomed by readers with varied national and scholarly backgrounds interested in the Enlightenment and nationalism. ER -