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Book SynopsisShows that religion and politics are mixed together in complex and vitally important ways not just in the East, but in the West as well. This volume examines the qualities of religious discourse and practice that can be used for nationalist purposes, paying attention to how religion can help to give meaning to sacrifice in national struggle.
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Nation and Religion urges us to rethink the received historical interpretation that associates the onset of western modernity with the separation of the private world of religion from the public domain of politics."
—Gyan Prakash, Princeton University"Van der Veer and Lehmann have collected eminent scholars to focus on the manifold connections between religion and nationalism. . . . There are keen scholarly insights here that will appeal to a wide readership."
—Prasenjit Duara, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1Introduction32The Moral State: Religion, Nation, and Empire in Victorian Britain and British India153Protestantism and British National Identity, 1815-1945444Race in Britain and India715History, the Nation, and Religion: The Transformations of the Dutch Religious Past966On Religious and Linguistic Nationalisms: The Second Partition of Bengal1127Nationalism, Modernity, and Muslim Identity in India before 19471298Memory, Mourning, and National Morality: Yasukuni Shrine and the Reunion of State and Religion in Postwar Japan1449Papists and Beggars: National Festivals and Nation Building in the Netherlands during the Nineteenth Century16110Religion, Nation-State, Secularism17811The Goodness of Nations197Bibliography205List of Contributors223Index225
