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Author Smith, Anthony D.

Title Chosen peoples / Anthony D. Smith
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description xxi, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- 1. Nationalism and Religion -- 2. The Nation as a Sacred Communion -- 3. Election and Covenant -- 4. Peoples of the Covenant -- 5. Missionary Peoples -- 6. Sacred Homelands -- 7. Ethno history and the Golden Age -- 8. Nationalism and Golden Ages -- 9. The Glorious Dead -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "This timely contribution to current debates about nationalism explains the complex historical reasons behind often violent modern conflicts around issues of land, culture, religion, and politics. Tracing the development of individual nations over many centuries, it offers fascinating insights into the religious and cultural foundations of countries such as Great Britain, the United States, Israel, France, and Germany. The argument draws on a wide range of examples from historic landscapes in Ireland, Switzerland, and Egypt, myths of Arthurian Britain, Holy Russia, and Byzantium, through memories of a 'Golden Age', to the modern commemoration of the 'Glorious Dead', and of victims of war."--Jacket
Notes Subtitle from dust jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-317) and index
Subject Nationalism.
Nationalism -- Religious aspects.
Covenants -- Religious aspects.
Election (Theology)
Political messianism.
LC no. 2004298484
ISBN 0192100173
Other Titles Sacred sources of national identity