Nationalism

Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation.

The Macedonian Question - the struggle for control over a territory with historically ill-defined borders and conflicting national identities - is one of the most intractable problems in modern Balkan history.

From the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 to the winning of independence in 1947, this book traces the complex and often troubled relationship between anti-imperialist campaigners in Britain and in India.

Nationalism has become the most prevalent source of political conflict and violence in the world.

This book describes the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (c.

The French revolution had an electrifying impact on Irish society.

This book examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations.

Evagrius of Pontus (c.

Language rifts in the Balkans are endemic and have long been both a symptom of ethnic animosity and a cause for inflaming it.

There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood.

This is the first English translation of the major Armenian epic on Adam and Eve composed by Arak'el of Siwnik' in the early fifteenth century.

The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching.

The ways in which religious communities interact with one another is an increasing focus of scholarly research and teaching.

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

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

Hebraism in Religion, History, and Politics is an investigation into Hebraism as a category of cultural analysis within the history of Christendom.

Hebraism in Religion, History, and Politics is an investigation into Hebraism as a category of cultural analysis within the history of Christendom.

This biography provides a versatile insight into the life, work, and thought of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965).

This biography provides a versatile insight into the life, work, and thought of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965).

Is the government ever justified in restricting offensive speech?

Is the government ever justified in restricting offensive speech?

Bad Queen Bess?

Bad Queen Bess?

Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of 'church life' experienced by England's Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians during the seventeenth century.

Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of 'church life' experienced by England's Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians during the seventeenth century.

This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport.

This is the first history of sport in Ireland, locating the history of sport within Irish political, social, and cultural history, and within the global history of sport.

Remembering the Irish Revolution chronicles the ways in which the Irish revolution was remembered in the first two decades of Irish independence.

How did ministers, journalists, academics, artists, and subjects in the German lands imagine war during the nineteenth century?

While the fate of minorities under Nazism is well known, the earlier expulsions of Germany's unwanted residents are less well understood.

In the age of the Theodosian dynasty and the establishment of Christianity as the only legitimate religion of the Roman Empire, few figures are more pivotal in the power politics of the Christian church than archbishop Theophilus of Alexandria (385-412).

The establishment of the Augustan regime presents itself as the assertion of order and rationality in the political, ideological, and artistic spheres, after the disorder and madness of the civil wars of the late Republic.

This book, a collection of eleven essays by one of the most interesting moral philosophers currently writing, is written from a perspective that is at once sympathetic towards and critical of liberal political philosophy.

In ancient Greece, epiphanies were embedded in cultural production, and employed by the socio-political elite in both perpetuating pre-existing power-structures and constructing new ones.

The just war ethic emerges from an affirmative response to the basic question of whether people may sometimes permissibly intend to kill other people.

The English revolution is one of the most intensely-debated events in history; parallel events in Scotland have never attracted the same degree of interest.

When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "e;I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States.

When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "e;I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States.

The received wisdom about the nature of the Greek Orthodox Church in the Ottoman Empire is that Sultan Mehmed II reestablished the Patriarchate of Constantinople as both a political and a religious authority to govern the post-Byzantine Greek community.

Mapping the Germans explores the development of statistical science and cartography in Germany between the beginning of the nineteenth century and the start of World War One, examining their impact on the German national identity.

The global movement of culture and religion has brought about a serious challenge to traditional constitutional secularism.

The global movement of culture and religion has brought about a serious challenge to traditional constitutional secularism.

This book assesses whether a new category of religious actors has been constructed within international law.

This book assesses whether a new category of religious actors has been constructed within international law.

Each state in Europe has its own national laws which affect religion and these are increasingly the subject of political and academic debate.

Inventing the Way of the Samurai examines the development of the 'way of the samurai' - bushido - which is popularly viewed as a defining element of the Japanese national character and even the 'soul of Japan'.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has moved from a religion-dominated protest party to a pragmatic party of government in Northern Ireland, the most popular in the region, with more votes, Assembly seats, and MPs than any of its rivals.

Voices of Conscience analyzes how the link between politics and conscience was articulated and shaped throughout the seventeenth century by confessors who acted as counsellors to monarchs.

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Violations of religious freedom and violence committed in the name of religion grab our attention on a daily basis.