Nationalism

Bangalore is looked at in depth in Supriya Baily's exploration of one of India's most dynamic cities.

Muslim Americans are grossly marginalized in US democracy and mainstream politics.

The idea of the United States as a Christian nation is a powerful, seductive, and potentially destructive theme in American life, culture, and politics.

A Christian response to global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction in the twenty-first century.

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

Since the late 1980s, many East Asian countries have become more multicultural, a process marked by increased democracy and pluralism despite the continuing influence of nationalism, which has forced these countries in the region to re-envision their nations.

This book explores relations between state, religion and law in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that succeeded it?

Is there a Nordic history ?

Defining the Others, "e;them"e;, in relation to one's own reference group, "e;us"e;, has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities in any given country or region.

This book offers a major exploration of the social and cultural importance of popular music to contemporary celebrations of Britishness.

The growing field of Holocaust studies confronts a world wracked by antisemitism, immigration and refugee crises, human rights abuses, mass atrocity crimes, threats of nuclear war, the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic, and environmental degradation.

This book offers a comprehensive and comparative analysis of the history of passports, border surveillance, border crossing, and other elements of European border regimes in the 20th century.

This book examines political and religious power as practised by the elite of the Roman Empire.

This book explores how the religious nationalist ideology of American Religious Exceptionalism (ARE) contributes to the American public''s self-promoting, exclusionary, and sometimes illiberal attitudes.

An anthropologist's groundbreaking account of how Islamic religious authority is assembled through the unceasing labor of community building on the island of JavaThis compelling book draws on Ismail Fajrie Alatas's unique insights as an anthropologist to provide a new understanding of Islamic religious authority, showing how religious leaders unite diverse aspects of life and contest differing Muslim perspectives to create distinctly Muslim communities.

This volume examines nationhood as a concept and how it became the basis of political discourse in South Asia.

This book situates Australian Muslim experiences of religious authority within the global context of Islam in the modern world.

The New England Watch and Ward Society provides a new window into the history of the Protestant establishment's prominent role in late nineteenth-century public life and its confrontation with modernity, commercial culture, and cultural pluralism in early twentieth-century America.

Secular Religions: The Key Concepts provides a concise guide to those ideologies, worldviews, and social, political, economic, and cultural phenomena that are most often described as the modern counterparts of traditional religions.

Digital technologies are proliferating and transforming racism, complicating our understanding, and making contemporary racism increasingly harder to challenge.

This book approaches the field of Political Islam from a European security perspective.

The Christian Right is frequently accused of threatening democratic values.

This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes for the future of Orangeism in Canada.

This book provides unique and detailed perspectives on different aspects of dissent, protest and disputes and how these have, in turn, continued to pose challenges in Africa.

This book illuminates the intersection of religion and gender within the development sector, exposing challenges in both policy and practice and suggesting implementable solutions.

Religion and Democratization is a comparative study of democratization in Muslim and Catholic societies.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

Weber's claim that Buddhism is an otherworldly religion is only partially true.

This interdisciplinary book explores human rights in the Americas from multiple perspectives and fields.

Military defeat, political and civil turmoil, and a growing unrest between Catholic traditionalists and increasingly secular Republicans formed the basis of a deep-seated identity crisis in Third Republic France.

When the British thought of themselves as a Protestant nation their natural enemy was the pope and they adapted their view of history accordingly.

How Long O Lord?

The Saudi "e;ulama"e; are known for their strong opposition to Shi'a theology, Shi'a communities in Saudi Arabia, and external Shi'a influences such as Iran and Hezbollah.

Questions of secularity and modernity have become globalized, but most studies still focus on the West.

The book analyses how political parties compete and strategise on the issue of territorial reform using case-studies that include countries from both Western (Belgium, Germany, Italy and Spain) and Central-Eastern Europe (Poland, Slovakia and Romania).

The purpose of the book is to ascertain whether there is a generic impact that 'religion' brings to bear on recent political changes in the modern world.

The link between the individual and the state or religious community on the other hand, does not occur without tension.

How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration?

This book examines conflict and violence among religious minorities and the implication on the idea of citizenship in contemporary India.

A concise and authoritative introduction to Islamic political ideasIn sixteen concise chapters on key topics, this book provides a rich, authoritative, and up-to-date introduction to Islamic political thought from the birth of Islam to today, presenting essential background and context for understanding contemporary politics in the Islamic world and beyond.

In 1903 Tsar Nicholas II issued a decree allowing the confiscation of Armenian Church property, marking the low point in relations between imperial Russia and its Armenian subjects.

Although there has been an increase in research on terrorism across the social and behavioural sciences in the past few decades, until recently most of this work has originated from political science, psychology or economics.

The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth century by the assassination of Mormon leaders, the Saints' exile from Missouri and Illinois, the military occupation of the Utah territory, and the national crusade against those who practiced plural marriage.

Postsecular Feminisms explores the contested relationship between feminism and secularism through a series of case studies, featuring perspectives from the global North and South.