Nationalism

This book looks at the historical context and political philosophy of the Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, a key figure in the Iranian revolution of 1978–9.

Gloria Anzaldua's narrative and theoretical innovations, particularly her concept of mestiza consciousness, have influenced critical thinking about colonialism, gender, history, language, religion, sexuality, spirituality, and subjectivity.

Our world as it once was In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school.

"e;Few are agnostic about atheism and agnosticism; this eloquent, wide-ranging volume should appeal to many, as well as supporting recent academic interest in its subject.

This book contends that the discourses of jihadism in Russia's North Caucasus, and their offshoots in other parts of the Russian Federation, are not just reflections of jihadi ideologies that came from abroad, rather that post-Soviet jihadism is a phenomenon best understood when placed in the broader cultural environment in which it emerged, an environment which comprises the North Caucasus, the whole of Russia, and beyond.

For many years religion has been the neglected component of international relations and yet in an age of globalization and terrorism, religious identity has become increasingly important in the lives of people in the West as well as the developing world.

Djupe and Gilbert investigate how membership in organized religious bodies shapes the political life of members.

This book opens a new research field in Balkan contextual theology.

In the changed political landscape of Northern Ireland, where all major political parties with a nationalist agenda are now reconciled to the use of peaceful and constitutional means to achieve their objectives, this book presents a timely analysis of the constitutional nationalist tradition in Northern Ireland in the period leading up to the outbreak of the Troubles.

How, and to what extent, can religion be included within commitments to multiculturalism?

A collection of writings on the Eucharist by one of the most important theological thinkers of our time.

The films "e;Brigadoon"e; and "e;Braveheart"e; have an enormous resonance both for Scots throughout the world and the wide audience of non-Scots for whom such films provide general impressions of "e;Scottishness"e;.

Prayer is an important religious practice that is rarely studied from the perspective of politics - and yet it should be.

Every year, there are several hundred attacks on India's Christians.

This book explains the roots, politics, and legacy of Korean ethnic nationalism, which is based on the sense of a shared bloodline and ancestry.

Like a great dynasty that falls to ruin and is eventually remembered more for its faults than its feats, Arab nationalism is remembered mostly for its humiliating rout in the 1967 Six Day War, for inter-Arab divisions, and for words and actions distinguished by their meagerness.

A highly topical analysis of European Nationalism from the French Revolution through to the aftermath of the First World War, when the nationalist issues and problems that dominate the political landscape of our own time were already fully established.

Angels, Spirits, principalities, powers, gods, Satanthese, along with all other spiritual realities, are the unmentionables of our culture.

In contemporary pluralist states, where faith communities live together, different religious symbols and practices have to coexist.

On October 1922 Mussolini became head of the Italian government, a situation that would last for twenty years.

Set in a multiethnic region of the nineteenth-century Habsburg Empire, this thoroughly interdisciplinary study maps out how the competing Romanian, Hungarian and German nationalization projects dealt with proper names.

Zionism and the State of Israel provides a topical and controversial analysis of the development of Zionism and the recent history and politics of Israel.

The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is all-good, God is all-powerful, and evil happens.

Engaging with the idea that the world reveals not one, but many routes to modernity, this volume explores the role of religion in the emergence of multiple forms of modernity, which evolve according to specific cultural conditions and interpretations of the 'modern project'.

How Israel is dividing American JewsTrouble in the Tribe explores the increasingly contentious place of Israel in the American Jewish community.

This book delves into Turkey's increasing ethno-religious, pragmatic, and complicated involvement and activism in the Balkans since 2002, under the Justice and Development Party (Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi - AKP).

This book examines key debates on religion and democratization from three main perspectives: Religious traditions have core elements which are more or less conducive to democratization and democracy; Religious traditions may be multi-vocal - but at any moment there may be dominant voices more or less receptive to and encouraging of democratization; Religious actors rarely if ever determine democratization outcomes.

Milan Kundera warned that in in the states of East-Central Europe, attitudes to the west and the idea of 'Europe' were complex and could even be hostile.

There is an increasingly intense interest in political theology amongst contemporary scholars and students.

More than 30 years after their momentous book "e;Projekt Mitteleuropa"e;, which had been written before the fall of the Iron Curtain, Emil Brix and Erhard Busek revisit the political space between Germany, Russia and the Mediterranean.

What shapes the cultural, political and ideological values of young people living in Southeastern Europe?

What does it mean to become religiously queer or queerly religious in one's everyday life?

In When Nationalism Began to Hate, Brian Porter offers a challenging new explanation for the emergence of xenophobic, authoritarian nationalism in Europe.

First published in 1989, Faith and Economic Practice: Protestant Businessmen in Chicago, 1900-1920 ponders the role that religion played in North American society in the 20th Century.

Greece and Asia Minor proved an irresistible lure to English visitors in the seventeenth century.

In 21st century America, personhood is under daily assault, sometimes with dire consequences.

The First World War's centenary generated a mass of commemorative activity worldwide.

This book explores the duality of openness and restriction in approaches to migrants in the Nordic countries.

A sizeable minority of people with no particular connection to Eastern religions now believe in reincarnation.

Benjamin Franklin grew up in a devout Protestant family with limited prospects for wealth and fame.

This book provides an interpretive and critical analysis of Kurdish identity, nationalism and national movement in Turkey since the 1960s.

This book is the first to systematically examine the connection between religion and transitional justice in post-communism.

This book conceives of "e;religion-making"e; broadly as the multiple ways in which social and cultural phenomena are configured and reconfigured within the matrix of a world-religion discourse that is historically and semantically rooted in particular Western and predominantly Christian experiences, knowledges, and institutions.

This volume makes a unique contribution to the literature on nations and nationalism by examining why nations remain a vibrant and strong social cohesive despite the threat of globalization.

This book traces how early Americans imagined what a ''nation'' meant during the first fifty years of the country''s existence.

For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics.

Nationalism and globalisation are two central phenomena of the modern world, that have both shaped and been shaped by each other, yet few connections have been made systematically between the two.

The fraught relationship between Saudi Arabia and Iran is usually attributed to sectarian differences, even by the states' own elites.