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Dreams of difference : the Japan romantic school and the crisis of modernity
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ISBN: 0520083776 9780520083776 Year: 1994 Publisher: Los Angeles University of California press

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From 1935 to 1945, the Japan Romantic School (Nihon Romanha), a group of major intellectuals and literary figures, explored issues concerning politics, literature, and nationalism in ways that still influence cultural discourse in Japan today. Kevin Doak's timely study is a broad critique of modernity in early twentieth-century Japan. He uses close readings and translations of texts and poems to suggest that the school's interest in romanticism stemmed from its attempt to surmount the "cultural crisis" of lost traditions. This attempt to overcome modernity eventually reduced the movement's earlier critical impulses to expressions of nationalist longing.


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The origins of religious violence : an Asian perspective
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ISBN: 9780739192221 0739192221 9781498501880 1498501885 073919223X 9780739192238 9780739192238 Year: 2014 Publisher: Lanham, Maryland ; London, England : Rowman & Littlefield,

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A scholar of world religions investigates religiously motivated violence that occurred in medieval Tibet and Bhutan, as well as in modern India, Sri Lanka, Burma, and Japan. The fusion of religious and national identity in high lamas and divine kings has caused just as much violence in Asia as it did in Europe and the Middle East.


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Politics after television : religious nationalism and the reshaping of the Indian public
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ISBN: 0521648394 0521640539 9786610432394 051117554X 0511040261 0511155956 0511328966 0511489056 128043239X 0511051409 110711604X 9780511040269 9780511155956 9780521640534 9780511489051 9780521648394 6610432392 9780511328961 9780511051401 0511084811 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, The Ramayana, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What resulted was the largest political campaign in post-independence times, around the symbol of Lord Ram, led by Hindu nationalists. The complexion of Indian politics was irrevocably changed thereafter. In this book, Arvind Rajagopal analyses this extraordinary series of events. While audiences may have thought they were harking back to an epic golden age, Hindu nationalist leaders were embracing the prospects of neoliberalism and globalisation. Television was the device that hinged these movements together, symbolising the new possibilities of politics, at once more inclusive and authoritarian. Simultaneously, this study examines how the larger historical context was woven into and changed the character of Hindu nationalism.

Examining Irish Nationalism in the Context of Literature, Culture and Religion : A Study of the Epistemological Structure of Nationalism
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ISBN: 077342122X 9780773421226 077347238X 9780773472389 Year: 2001 Publisher: Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press,

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This study argues that it is only through its epistemological perspective that nationalism can be properly analyzed. It goes on to offer such an analysis, utilizing the work of Jacques Lacan. This study contents that the captation of the self by a reflected, two-dimensional image of that self is the sine qua non of the epistemology of nationalism, as a sense of group selfhood is defined performatively through this process. The strong connections between nationalism and religion are examined Finally, the supposed difference between political nationalism and 'cultural nationalism' is interrogate


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Holy nations and global identities : civil religion, nationalism, and globalisation
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ISSN: 15734293 ISBN: 1282606158 9786612606151 9047440633 9789047440635 9781282606159 9789004178281 9004178287 6612606150 Year: 2009 Volume: 10 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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Along with the processes of globalisation and the end of the cold war we have seen an upsurge in religious nationalism and an increasing focus on the role of religion as a legitimising force in democratic secular states. Holy Nations andamp; Global Identities draws on the combined theoretical and historical insight of historians, political scientists and social scientists on the question of nationalism and globalisation with the methodological knowledge of religion presented by sociologists of religion. The book brings genuine theoretical explorations and original case studies on civil religion, nationalism and globalization. It also provides an introduction to the research history of the fields and aims to develop and elaborate on the theories and methodology of the investigated subjects.


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Calling of the nations: exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present
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ISBN: 9780802092410 0802092411 1442660430 1442659491 Year: 2011 Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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This wide-ranging collection moves from the earliest Pauline and Rabbinic exegesis through Christian imperial and missionary narratives of the late Roman, medieval, and early modern periods to the entangled identity politics of 'mainstream' nineteenth- and twentieth-century North America.

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