Nationalism

Activism in any social movement group is, as Deborah Gould observes, a project of collective 'world-making'.

Culture and Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics.

In the history of modern political thought, no topics have attracted as much attention as nationalism, nation-formation, and patriotism.

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.

A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau.

Religionen stellen sich heute als friedliebend dar.

'This is an important and necessary book by a superb and subtle writer.

This work aims to demonstrate academic evidence for how Ulster Unionists would have responded to the task of governing a nine-county Northern Ireland, the challenges they would face and the measures they would take to hold the province of Ulster.

Jeremy Carrette argues that the psychology of religion is no longer sustainable without a social critique, and that as William James predicted, the project of the modernist psychology of religion has failed.

The notion of a 'politics of religion' refers to the increasing role that religion plays in the politics of the contemporary world.

This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of nationalist violence in postwar Europe and of its complex causes.

By the early twenty-first century neo-nationalist forces have established themselves in a number of the world s large regions and subcontinents.

This book offers a groundbreaking account of the role of media technologies in Indian nationalism and democracy.

Whether through government propaganda or popular transnational satellite television channels, Arab citizens encounter a discourse that reinforces a sense of belonging to their own state and a broader Arab world on a daily basis.

Struggles for global justice are being fought by civil society groups across the globe, addressing global inequalities, challenging neoliberal market driven globalization and demanding to remedy its negative implications.

The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees.

With a combination of essay-length and short entries written by a team of leading religious experts, the two-volume Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodoxy offers the most comprehensive guide to the cultural and intellectual world of Eastern Orthodox Christianity available in English today.

In response to recent media controversy and public debate about legal pluralism and multiculturalism, Manea argues against what she identifies as the growing tendency for people to be treated as 'homogenous groups' in Western academic discourse, rather than as individuals with authentic voices.

Originally published in 1974, Ritual in Industrial Society is based on several years' research including interviews and observations into the importance of ritual in industrial society within modern Britain.

The 2013 elections took place less than two years after the overwhelming wave of social protests of summer 2011.

Chinese nationalism is powered by a narrative of China's century of shame and humiliation in the hands of imperialist powers and calls for the Chinese government to redeem the past humiliations and take back all "e;lost territories.

This book identifies and examines the political activities of selected religious actors, in both domestic and international contexts, in relation to democracy, human rights and civilisational interactions.

Explaining Religious Party Strength explores why religious political parties are electorally successful in some countries but not in others.

Bangladesh is a country of paradoxes.

The early twenty-first century has been defined by a rise in Islamist radicalisation and a concurrent rise in far right extremism.

Between 1848 and 1865 white southerners felt the grounds of nationhood shift beneath their feet.

Based on fine-grained ethnographic research in an English city, this book offers a highly original perspective on England's contemporary political predicament.

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state.

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

The Kurdish question remains one of the most important and complicated issues in ethnic politics in contemporary times, with the Kurds being one of the largest ethnic groups in the world without a state of their own.

Starting in the 1530s with John Bale, English reformers found in the apocalyptic mysteries of the Book of Revelation a framework for reinterpreting the history of Christianity and explaining the break from the Roman Catholic Church.

It is October 1592.

In recent years, North American and European nations have sought to legally remake religion in other countries through an unprecedented array of international initiatives.

Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r.

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 first sociology of religion textbook to begin the task of diversifying and decolonizing the study of religion, Sociology of Religion develops a sociological frame that draws together the personal, political and public, showing how religion - its origins, development and changes - is understood as a social institution, influenced by and influencing wider social structures.

The separate school question is a continuing controversy in Canada - a variation on the classical issue in western history of church-state relations in education, heightened by the conflict between French and English.

Using yet untapped resources from moral and political philosophy, this book seeks to answer the question of whether an all good God who is presumed to be all powerful is logically compatible with the degree and amount of moral and natural evil that exists in our world.

The Muslim Speaks reimagines Islam as a strategy for investigating the modern condition.

Western society has become saturated with scientific and technological modes of thinking that impact our lives and our relationships.

Advocacy for religious freedom has become a global project while religion, and the management of religion, has become of increasing interest to scholars across a wider range of disciplines.

Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history.

Russian Baptists and the Orthodox Church have had a difficult and - at times - dramatic relationship over the past century and a half.

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.

This book investigates the impact of Christian nationalism on democracy in Ghana, arguing that proponents of a specific Christian worldview seek to remake the country according to their values and beliefs.

This book investigates the impact of Christian nationalism on democracy in Ghana, arguing that proponents of a specific Christian worldview seek to remake the country according to their values and beliefs.

No analysis of the Donald Trump phenomenon and American neo-nationalism is satisfactory without examining the impact of both the Christian Right and the secular nationalist right, both in the USA and abroad.