Religions, Nations, and Transnationalism in Multiple Modernities

Religions, Nations, and Transnationalism in Multiple Modernities
Author: Patrick Michel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2017-04-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137580119

This edited book explores the impact of globalisation on the relationship between religion and politics, religion and nation, religion and nationalism, and the impact that transnationalism has on religious groups. In a post-Westphalian and transnational world, with increased international communication and transportation, a plethora of new religious recompositions religions now take part in a network society that cuts across borders. This collection, through its analysis of historical and contemporary case studies, explores the growth of both national and transnational religious movements and their dealings with the various versions of modernity that they encounter. It considers trends of religious revitalisation and secularisation, and processes of nationalism and transnationalism through the prism of the theory of multiple modernities, acknowledging both its pluralist world view but also the argument that its definition of modernity is often so inclusive as to lose coherence. Providing a cutting edge take on 21st century religion and globalization, this volume is a key read for all scholars of religion, secularisation and transnationalism.

Nationalism and Multiple Modernities

Nationalism and Multiple Modernities
Author: Atsuko Ichijo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2013-08-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113700875X

This book is the first to apply the theory of multiple modernities to the study of nationalism, examining the modernity of nationalism through three major case-studies: Anglo-British, Finnish and Japanese.

Cultures, Nationalism and Populism

Cultures, Nationalism and Populism
Author: José Luís de Sales Marques
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2019-08-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429536038

This book examines the role of the cultural factor, and patterns of its interaction with social, economic and political developments, in fostering identity-based new populisms and various forms of political authoritarianism across the globe. Comparing authoritarianism in the Asian and Western context, this book attempts to shed light on the different ways in which new political actors make use of cultural traditions or constructs in order to justify their claims to power and challenge the culture of modernity as understood in the Western world. Lastly, the book focuses on the consequence of these new challenges for multilateral cooperation at regional and global levels, asking the question: is the world going towards fragmentation and anarchy or a pluralist and innovative form of multilateral cooperation? This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of populism and authoritarianism studies, democracy, global governance and more broadly to international relations.

Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism

Islamic Modernism, Nationalism, and Fundamentalism
Author: Mansoor Moaddel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2005-05-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226533336

A comparative historical analysis of the social changes that have affected the Islamic world in modern times & of the failure to achieve consensus on important social issues such as the form of government, the status of women, national identity & rule making.

Nationalism and Modernism

Nationalism and Modernism
Author: Prof Anthony D Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134923333

The first major study in over three decades to explore the essential arguments of all the major theoretical interpretations of nationalism, from the modernist approaches of Gellner, Nairn, Breuilly, Giddens and Hobsbawm to the alternative paradigms of van den Bergh and Geertz, Armstrong and Smith himself. In a style accessible to the student and the general reader Smith traces the changing view of this hotly discussed topic within the current political, cultural and socioeconomic arena. He also analyses the contributions of such historians, sociologists and political scientists as Seton-Watson, Reynolds, Hastings, Horowitz and Brass. The survey concludes with an analysis of post-modern approaches to national identity, gender and nation, making it indispensable reading to all those interested in gaining full and authoritative knowledge of nationalism.

Between Modernity and Nationalism

Between Modernity and Nationalism
Author: Mushirul Hasan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2010
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Halide Edip (1884-1964) once observed that Turkey is an ideal cross-section of the human world. Her own life was no less eclectic. A prolific novelist, teacher, erudite scholar, and political activist, Edip preserved her objectivity throughout her odyssey on the left-of-centre. She explored India and its national movement during the great churnings of the liberation struggle which made Turkeythe melting pot of eastern and western civilizations prominent in the international scenario of 1930s and 40s.

Food, National Identity and Nationalism

Food, National Identity and Nationalism
Author: Atsuko Ichijo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 113748313X

Exploring a much neglected area, the relationship between food and nationalism, this book examines a number of case studies at various levels of political analysis to show how useful the food and nationalism axis can be in the study of politics.

Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective

Religion and Nationalism in Global Perspective
Author: J. Christopher Soper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2018-10-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107189438

Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.

A Social Theory of the Nation-State

A Social Theory of the Nation-State
Author: Daniel Chernilo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008-03-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134150121

A Social Theory of the Nation-State construes a novel and original social theory of the nation-state. It rejects nationalistic ways of thinking that take the nation-state for granted as much as globalist orthodoxy that speaks of its current and definitive decline.

Contested Modernity

Contested Modernity
Author: Omar H. AlShehabi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2019-04-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786072920

Discussions of the Arab world, particularly the Gulf States, increasingly focus on sectarianism and autocratic rule. These features are often attributed to the dominance of monarchs, Islamists, oil, and ‘ancient hatreds’. To understand their rise, however, one has to turn to a largely forgotten but decisive episode with far-reaching repercussions – Bahrain under British colonial rule in the early twentieth century. Drawing on a wealth of previously unexamined Arabic literature as well as British archives, Omar AlShehabi details how sectarianism emerged as a modern phenomenon in Bahrain. He shows how absolutist rule was born in the Gulf, under the tutelage of the British Raj, to counter nationalist and anti-colonial movements tied to the al-Nahda renaissance in the wider Arab world. A groundbreaking work, Contested Modernity challenges us to reconsider not only how we see the Gulf but the Middle East as a whole.