BELIEVERS IN THE NATION

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-90-429-3360-6
Verlag: PEETERS PUB

Buch, Englisch, Band 52, 205 Seiten, Gewicht: 553 g

Reihe: Groningen Studies in Cultural

Existing literature on the subject has pointed out that the sense of

belonging generated by nineteenth-century nationalism often replaced

religions in their public role of shaping common identity. In fact,

religions did not get secluded into the private sphere but kept playing

a role in the national discourse.A difference need

nevertheless be detected between majority and minority religion. If the

former could present itself as a societal cohesive factor, the latter

has a more complicated task. The contributions in this volume

reconstruct the adaptation strategies of nineteenth-century Catholic,

Jewish and Protestant minorities in Europe as determined both by

national contexts and internal dynamics. The two recurrent

strategies of accommodation and confrontation took place in several

forms and stages. The volume aims therefore at reconstructing the

position of religious minorities in different European contexts (United

Kingdom, Germany, the Netherlands, and Italy) in the period 1815-1914

but also at reassessing the concept of ‘religious minority’ as a factor

of cultural change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dagnino, R.

Grazi, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte