This interdisciplinary book straddles the fields of history, politics, religion and sociology, and medieval and modern history. Its importance lies in its contribution to arguments about the meaning and origin of nationalism, ethnicity and nationhood, and in challenging the widely-accepted "modernist" theories of Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and others. Its argument incorporates careful analysis of English, Irish, South Slav and African examples, and suggests finally an important contract between Christianity and Islam.
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"Hastings writes with great clarity and a welcome freedom from current linguistic fashions in historical scholarship....He has added substantially to the growing body of evidence that the vernacular implantation of Christianity has generally been subversive, rather than supportive, of claims to imperial hegemony." Church History
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This interdisciplinary book straddles the fields of history, politics, religion and sociology, and medieval and modern history. Its importance lies in its contribution to arguments about the meaning and origin of nationalism, ethnicity and nationhood, and in challenging the widely-accepted 'modernist' theories of Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and others. Its argument incorporates careful analysis of English, Irish, South Slav and African examples, and suggests finally an important contract between Christianity and Islam.
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Unique contribution to the study of nationalism,
This review is from: The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism (1996 Wiles Lectures Given at the Queen's University of Belfa) (Paperback)
This book has already been criticized as a blatant promotion of the "primordialist" view of nations and nationalism, i.e. the claim that nations have existed as one of the prime forms of human (self-) identification and organization since time immemorial. Such criticisms are, I think, not entirely on the mark. What Hastings does in this book more than anything else is challenge the incredibly structural/functionalist view that nations and nationalism are simply a by-product of industrialization and the increasingly complex division of labor in human societies-a model constructed and most extensively explained by Ernest Gellner. While useful and interesting, Gellner's model often has to bend and fold historical facts to make them "fit." In fact, Hastings takes Gellner's rigid model and applies it to early medieval England, where shows that according to Gellner's criteria, one can even speak of a nascent English nation in the era of the Venerable Bede and King Alfred. The most important point Hastings makes is to fault the strictly modern view of national development as overly simplistic. Nation formation and national identity are actually long-term historical processes which, although closely tied to industrialization and modernization, were and are not strictly bound to the latter nor always dependent on them. Although I don't necessarily agree with all of Hastings' conclusions, nor even his analytical methods, I think this is a very interesting and useful contribution to the scholarly literature on nationalism.
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This review is from: The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism (1996 Wiles Lectures Given at the Queen's University of Belfa) (Paperback)
Recently, I have been reading about group behavior, why we form groups, and, in general, nationalism/religion, etc. This is a short, well written, and informative treatment of the subject.
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Nation, ethnicity, nationalism and religion are four distinct and determinative elements within European and world history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Middle Ages, New Testament, Old Testament, Habsburg Empire, English Bible, Holy Roman Empire, New England, South Slav, Book of Common Prayer, King James, Benedict Anderson, English Catholics, Great Britain, Hundred Years War, Old Irish, Southern Slav, Anthony Smith, Great Charter, Gunpowder Plot, King of France, Linda Colley, Ottoman Empire, United States, Vuk Brankovic, War of Independence New!
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Nation, ethnicity, nationalism and religion are four distinct and determinative elements within European and world history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Middle Ages, New Testament, Old Testament, Habsburg Empire, English Bible, Holy Roman Empire, New England, South Slav, Book of Common Prayer, King James, Benedict Anderson, English Catholics, Great Britain, Hundred Years War, Old Irish, Southern Slav, Anthony Smith, Great Charter, Gunpowder Plot, King of France, Linda Colley, Ottoman Empire, United States, Vuk Brankovic, War of Independence New!
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- Book of Common Prayer (1979, Personal Size Economy, Black) by The Episcopal Church on 4 pages
- National Identity (Ethnonationalism Comparative Perspective) by Anthony D. Smith in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Invention of Tradition (Canto) by Eric Hobsbawm on page 149, and Back Matter
- Book of Common Prayer - Desk Edition by Church of Ireland on page 58, and page 67
- The Middle Ages by Morris Bishop on page 17, and page 72
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- Power and the Nation in European History by Len Scales on 5 pages
- Nations and Nationalism: A Reader by Philip Spencer on page 32, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Christendom And European Identity: The Legacy Of A Grand Narrative Since 1789 (Religion and Society) by Mary Anne Perkins on page 194, and Back Matter
- Ethnicity and Argument in Eusebius' Praeparatio Evangelica (Oxford Early Christian Studies) by Aaron P. Johnson on page 32, and Back Matter
- Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglicanism Theories of the State between the Wars (Oxford Historical Monographs) by Matthew Grimley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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