Focusing on Japan, France, and the United States, the author argues that the writing of national history in the late nineteenth century made the reshaping of the world by capitalism and the nation-state seem natural and inevitable. The three countries faced similar ideological c…
Nation and religion: perspectives on Europe and Asia
Nation and religion: perspectives on Europe and Asia
by Lehmann, Hartmut, Veer, Peter van der
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"Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity--characterized by the rise of nationalism, the dominance of capitalism, and the emergence of powerfu…
"Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity--characterized by the rise of nationalism, the dominance of capitalism, and the emergence of powerfu…
