Religion, ethnicity, and self-identity nations in turmoil
Introduction: the role of religion in cultural foundations of ethnonationalism / Martin E. Marty -- On seeking the cultural context of fundamentalism / Raymond Grew -- Critical issues in Arab Islamic fundamentalism / Ziad Abu-Amr -- Religion, ethnicity, and nationalism in India / T.N. Madan -- The r...
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Univ. Press of New England
c1997
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: the role of religion in cultural foundations of ethnonationalism / Martin E. Marty -- On seeking the cultural context of fundamentalism / Raymond Grew -- Critical issues in Arab Islamic fundamentalism / Ziad Abu-Amr -- Religion, ethnicity, and nationalism in India / T.N. Madan -- The rebirth of religion and ethnonationalism in the Soviet successor states / Martha Olcott -- Religion and nationalism in the Balkans: a deadly combination? / Gabriel Partos -- Multiculturalism, religious conservatism, and American diversity / Nathan Glazer. Ethnicity and religion at the end of this century are fused in surprising, creative, and ominous ways. News stories connect words like Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant with various movements of peoples. Whereas ethnicity and religion have, in the past, succumbed to secular, urban, technological, ideological, educational, and mass communication influences, they now surface as a freshly volatile force in world cultures. To overcome these conventional influences, people establish personal and group identity, mutual security, and empowerment by creatively merging their ethnicity and religion. This collection of essays examines, in Martin Marty's terms, the "explosion of public faith and aggressive action Ethnicity and religion at the end of this century are fused in surprising, creative, and ominous ways. News stories connect words like Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant with various movements of peoples. Whereas ethnicity and religion have, in the past, succumbed to secular, urban, technological, ideological, educational, and mass communication influences, they now surface as a freshly volatile force in world cultures. To overcome these conventional influences, people establish personal and group identity, mutual security, and empowerment by creatively merging their ethnicity and religion. This collection of essays examines, in Martin Marty's terms, the "explosion of public faith and aggressive action |
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| Beschreibung: | Salzburg Seminar books |
| Beschreibung: | 141 S 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0874518156 0-87451-815-6 |