Chosen peoples /

• Main Author: Smith, Anthony D., 1939-2016 (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
• Subjects: Εθνικισμός > Θρησκευτικές απόψεις

"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...

Table of Contents:

• Nationalism and religion
• The nation as a sacred communion
• Election and covenant
• Peoples of the covenant
• Missionary peoples
• Sacred homelands
• Ethnohistory and the Golden Age
• Nationalism and Golden Ages
• The glorious dead.