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Sociology, Egyptology & Anthropology Department

Abstract

Since the earliest attempts to treat the nation and nationalism as objects of academic inquiry, a central and recurrent question while examining these phenomena has been their relationship to religion. Attempts to define the nation and nationalism have involved comparing and contrasting them with other powerful forms of collective identification and mobilization, one of which is religion. Studies of the relationship of religion to the nation and nationalism comprise a vast body of literature that offers divergent, conflicting and often incommensurable positions and values.

Publication Date

2016

Document Type

Encyclopedia Entry

Book Title

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism

Editors

John Stone, et al.

ISBN

9781118663202

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

City

Chicester

First Page

1

Last Page

8

Keywords

religion, nationalism, social theory, sociology

Disciplines

Comparative Methodologies and Theories | Political Science | Race and Ethnicity | Religion | Sociology | Sociology of Religion

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