This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nation, it discuss practices of nationalism vis-a-vis migration, rituals of sacrifice and prayer, music, media, e-commerce, Islamophobia, bare life, secularism, literature and atheism. The volume offers new understandings of nationalism in a broader perspective.The text will appeal to students and researchers interested in nationalism outside of the West, especially those working in anthropology, sociology and history.
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This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form.
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Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Imagining Alternatives to Globalization of the Nation Form - Irfan Ahmad and Jie Kang.- Chapter 2. The Oeuvre of Peter van der Veer - Irfan Ahmad.- Part 2.  ​​INDIA.- Chapter 3. On the ‘Impossibility’ of Atheism in Secular India - Stefan Binder.- Chapter 4. Hindu Nationalism and North Indian Music in the Global Age - Bob van der Linden.- Chapter 5. Muslim Bare Life in Contemporary India - Irfan Ahmad and Peter van der Veer.- Part 3. ​​China.- Chapter 6. Rising, Becoming, Overcoding: On Chinese Nationalism in The Wandering Earth - Jeroen de Kloet.- Chapter 7. Nationalism and Chinese Protestant Christianity: From Anti-Imperialism to Islamophobia - Jie Kang.- Chapter 8. Digital Imaginaries and the Chinese Nation-State - Samuel Lengen.- Chapter 9. Moral Labour, the Nation and the State in Contemporary China - Xiao He.- Part 4. ​​South Africa and the Middle East.- Chapter 10. Race, Animal Bodies and Religion: Sacrifice, Sensory Politics and Public Space in South Africa - Shaheed Tayob.- Chapter 11. The Rivalry Between Secular and Religious Nationalisms: On the Split in Iranian National Identity - Mahmoud Alinejad.- Part 5. ​​Asia In/And Europe.- Chapter 12. Coming of Age in the Secular Republic of Fiction - Oskar Verkaaik.- Chapter 13. Socialization of Language and Morality at Chinese Christian Church of Berlin - Jingyang Yu.- Afterword:  Reflections on Nationalism - Peter van der Veer.
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These incisive essays explore nationalist violence and ethno-religious purification in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, and China. Readers will encounter the extreme precarity of Islamic minorities and migrants, as well as inspiring explorations of alternative imaginaries beyond the nation form. Kenneth Dean, Professor, National University of Singapore. This excellent edited volume is a tribute to a major anthropologist of our times that combines approaches based on comparison with an analytic attention to circulation, thus showing us that the nation-form dominates our world because of its viral capacity to find hosts in highly variable cultural, religious and political contexts, which it then pushes in the direction of xenophobia, exclusion and populism. Arjun Appadurai, Max Weber Global Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York, USA This collection of global ethnographies makes evident that the global expansion of the nation is as intrinsic to processes of globalization as the global expansion of capitalist markets. It also shows that in our global age religion and its binary secular remain inextricably intertwined with both dynamics of globalization. José Casanova, Emeritus Professor, Georgetown University, USA This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nation, it discuss practices of nationalism visa-a-vis migration, rituals of sacrifice and prayer, music, media, e-commerce, Islamophobia, bare life, secularism, literature and atheism. The volume offers new understandings of nationalism in a broader perspective.Irfan Ahmad is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. Jie Kang is Research Fellow and Project Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany.
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These incisive essays provide a sorely needed “vaccination against nationalism” in its increasingly virulent religious and secular forms.  Building on the contributions of Peter van der Veer to the historical and comparative anthropology of the imperial encounter, this volume explores nationalist violence and ethno-religious purification in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, and China. Readers will encounter the extreme precarity of Islamic minorities and migrants, as well as inspiring explorations of alternative imaginaries beyond the nation form.Kenneth Dean, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.This excellent edited volume is a tribute to a major anthropologist of our times that combines approaches based on comparison with an analytic attention to circulation, thus showing us that the nation-form dominates our world because of its viral capacity to find hosts in highly variable cultural, religious and political contexts, which it then pushes in the direction of xenophobia, exclusion and populism.Arjun Appadurai, Max Weber Global Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New YorkThis collection of global ethnographies in honor of Peter van der Veer makes evident that the global expansion of the nation is as intrinsic to processes of globalization as the global expansion of capitalist markets. It also shows that in our global age religion and its binary secular remain inextricably intertwined with both dynamics of globalization.José Casanova, Emeritus Professor, Georgetown University 
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Goes beyond Europe to focus on nationalism in non-Western regions Focuses on atheism and secularism in countries that present their identities in religious terms Based on ethnographic data comprising extensive fieldwork This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
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Open Access This book is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this book are included in the book's Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the book's Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
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9783030855826
Publisert
2022-01-30
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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210 mm
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148 mm
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Research, P, 06
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Engelsk
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Biographical note

Irfan Ahmad is currently Professor of Anthropology at the department of Sociology at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey. Prior to this new appointment, Ahmad worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. A political anthropologist, he has taught and done research works at University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Monash University (Melbourne) and Australian Catholic University (Melbourne) in Australia. He is the author, most recently, of Religion As Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (2017) and editor of Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future (2021).

 

Jie Kang is  Research Fellow and Project Coordinator for ‘Cultural diversity in South-West China and South-East Asia' and 'Temples, rituals and the transformation of transnational network’ at MPI’s Department of Religious Diversity. She is the author of House Church Christianity in China: From Rural Preachers to City Pastors (2016).