Nationalism

What can atheists tell us about religious life?

Joyce Dalsheim's ethnographic study takes a ground-breaking approach to one of the most contentious issues in the Middle East: the Israeli settlement project.

In this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives.

Sam Cherribi is a Moroccan Muslim who became a naturalized Dutch citizen and member of the Dutch Parliament.

Christianity in the United States has long been organized around congregations and denominations.

"e;Original and wide-ranging, Murphy's discerning and important study is another reminder that America is 'the nation with the soul of a church.

America's clergy are not just religious leaders.

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Solidarity--the reciprocal relations of trust and obligation between citizens that are essential for a thriving polity--is a basic goal of all political communities.

The Religious Right came to prominence in the early 1980s, but it was born during the early Cold War.

In Wayward Christian Soldiers, leading evangelical theologian Charles Marsh offers a powerful indictment of the political activism of evangelical Christian leaders and churches in the United States.

Accounts of the history of Zionism usually trace its origins to the late nineteenth century.

Czech, German, and Noble examines the intellectual ideas and political challenges that inspired patriotic activity among the Bohemian nobility, the infusion of national identity into public and institutional life, and the role of the nobility in crafting and supporting the national ideal within Habsburg Bohemia.

Scholars universally acknowledge the role that Christian belief played in the social movement engendered by Martin Luther King Jr.

In the wake of the 2004 election, pundits were shocked at exit polling that showed that 22% of voters thought 'moral values' was the most important issue at stake.

What does it mean to be a Christian citizen of the United States today?

Common wisdom has long held that the ascent of the modern nation coincided with the flowering of Enlightenment democracy and the decline of religion, ringing in an age of tolerant, inclusive, liberal states.

At a time of unprecedented national power, why do so many Americans believe that our nationhood is fragile and precarious?

This groundbreaking study focuses on a village called Te in a "e;Tibetanized"e; region of northern Nepal.

For over four centuries the Catholic Church enjoyed a religious monopoly in Latin America in which potential rivals were repressed or outlawed.

Should prayer be allowed in public schools?

Nationalism and irony are two of the most significant developments of the Romantic period, yet they have not been linked in depth before now.

Reporting from the heartland of Yugoslavia in the 1970s, Washington Post correspondent Dusko Doder described "e;a landscape of Gothic spires, Islamic mosques, and Byzantine domes.

Thomas Curry argues that discussion and interpretation of the First Amendment have reached a point of deep crisis.

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Enlightened Nationalism provides the first synthesis in English of Prussian political culture from the Napoleonic era to the Revolution of 1848.

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

The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved.

Listening closely to the religious pitch in Rousseau's voice, Cladis convincingly shows that Rousseau, when attempting to portray the most characteristic aspects of the public and private, reached for a religious vocabulary.

In October of 2014, 12-year-old Sasha Lutt read from a tiny Torah scroll as a part of her bat mitzvah in the Women's section of the plaza at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site.

Over the past three decades, through rises and falls in power, regime repression and exclusion, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has endured, proving more resilient than any other Islamist movement in the world.

During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people.

During the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people.

Containing Balkan Nationalism focuses on the implications of the Bulgarian national movement that developed in the context of Ottoman modernization and of European imperialism in the Near East.

At the turn of the millennium, Nepal was the world's last remaining Hindu kingdom.

Scholars of language ideology have encouraged us to reflect on and explore where social categories come from, how they have been reproduced, and whether and to what extent they are relevant to everyday interactional practices.

Drawing from research conducted in Nigeria, Senegal, and Uganda, Christianity, Islam, and Liberal Democracy offers a deeper understanding of how Christian and Islamic faith communities affect the political attitudes of those who belong to them and, in turn, prospects for liberal democracy.

How can religion contribute to democracy in a secular age?

In a seventeenth-century English landscape populated with towering political and philosophical figures like Hobbes, Harrington, Cromwell, Milton, and Locke, William Penn remains in many ways a man apart.

The Covenanters, now mostly forgotten, were America's first Christian nationalists.

The Covenanters, now mostly forgotten, were America's first Christian nationalists.

This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the scholarship on religion, conflict, and peacebuilding.

Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England.

Sam Haselby offers a new and persuasive account of the role of religion in the formation of American nationality, showing how a contest within Protestantism reshaped American political culture and led to the creation of an enduring religious nationalism.

Our world is currently divided into territorial states that resist all attempts to change their borders.

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

In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal.

In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal.

The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy.

The landscape of the Middle East has changed dramatically since 2011, as have the political arena and the discourse around democracy.