Nationalism

Sheppard explores Mexico's profound political, social, and economic changes through the lens of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism.

The history of Mexico in the twentieth century is marked by conflict between church and state.

This new edition of Edward A.

God knows it is hard to make God boring, Stanley Hauerwas writes, but American Christians, aided and abetted by theologians, have accomplished that feat.

In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic.

In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam.

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.

Japan's Holy War reveals how a radical religious ideology drove the Japanese to imperial expansion and global war.

In The Making of a Human Bomb, Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian anthropologist, explains the cultural logic underlying Palestinian martyrdom operations (suicide attacks) launched against Israel during the Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000-06).

In Politics without a Past Shari J.

Creating Ourselves is a unique effort to lay the cultural and theological groundwork for cross-cultural collaboration between the African and Latino/a American communities.

Based on ethnographic research by an interdisciplinary team of scholars and activists, Religion at the Corner of Bliss and Nirvana illuminates the role that religion plays in the civic and political experiences of new migrants in the United States.

Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies.

How to Be French is a magisterial history of French nationality law from 1789 to the present, written by Patrick Weil, one of France's foremost historians.

In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L.

In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of "e;transnational blackness"e; that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century.

The essays in Theology and the Political-written by some of the world's foremost theologians, philosophers, and literary critics-analyze the ethics and consequences of human action.

Unprecedented in scope and detail, Brothers and Strangers is a vivid history of how the mythic Africa of the black American imagination ran into the realities of Africa the place.

During the first half of the twentieth century, Japanese immigrants entered Brazil by the tens of thousands.

Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L.

From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry.

Focusing on cemetery burials in late-eighteenth-century Mexico, Alone Before God provides a window onto the contested origins of modernity in Mexico.

In Staging the World Rebecca E.

Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, Georges Woke Up Laughing provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States that illuminates the phenomenon of long-distance nationalism, the voicelessness of certain citizens, and the impotency of government in an increasingly globalized world.

Capitalism and Christianity, American Style is William E.

In Like Cattle and Horses Steve Smith connects the rise of Chinese nationalism to the growth of a Chinese working class.

In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L.

In Wedded to the Land?

A major historical phenomenon of our century, exile has been a focal point for reflections about individual and cultural identity and problems of nationalism, racism, and war.

Once a marginal political coalition, the French National Front has become the most high-profile far-right organization in Europe.

Eco-nationalism examines the spectacular rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its substantial decline after 1991.

In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria.

Sara R.

Pursuing Justice in Africa focuses on the many actors pursuing many visions of justice across the African continenttheir aspirations, divergent practices, and articulations of international and vernacular idioms of justice.

The Black Newspaper and the Chosen Nation shows how antebellum African Americans used the newspaper as a means for translating their belief in black "e;chosenness"e; into plans and programs for black liberation.

Offers reflections on how the words of a first-century Jew can offer meaning, hope, and wholeness to readers today.

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATION'S 2023 HOCHMUTH-NICHOLS AWARD A definitive rhetorical history of conservative populism, exposing how identity, victimhood, and populist appeals have shaped-and constrained-modern American conservatism.

Essays that explore how Protestants responded to the opportunities and perils of revolution in the transatlantic age Revolution as Reformation: Protestant Faith in the Age of Revolutions, 1688-1832 highlights the role that Protestantism played in shaping both individual and collective responses to revolution.

"e;This investigation tries to understand why many Evangelical pastors were blamed for endorsing Trump when, in fact, most did not.

Hunt the Devil is a timely and illuminating exploration of demonic imagery in US war culture.

Uplifting the People is a history of the Alabama Missionary Baptist State Convention-its origins, churches, associations, conventions, and leaders.

The question of whether Islam is compatible with democracy may best be answered not from the classical sources or even from the cauldron of Middle East politics but from the lived experiences of Muslim communities around the world.

"e;How societies can preserve democracy with a human-directed social contractThe recent rise of populist movements, especially in Western democracies, has prompted considerable thoughtful analysis.

More than two hundred years have passed since the Constitution was written, yet Americans still cannot make up their minds whether religion is primarily private, public, or a combination of the two.

The First Amendment of the U.

The Western Sahara conflict has proven to be one of the most protracted and intractable struggles facing the international community.

The Western Sahara conflict has proven to be one of the most protracted and intractable struggles facing the international community.

What electoral mobilization choices do Islamist opposition parties make?

Hndiyya al-'Ujaimi, a young eighteenth-century nun whose faith was matched by her ambition and intellect, lies at the heart of this absorbing history of Middle Eastern Christianity.

Iraq, holding oil reserves second only to those of Saudi Arabia in the Middle East, is locked in a war with Iran whose outcome will affect Western energy supplies and the prospects for stability in the Arabian Gulf.