Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia

Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity—characterized by the rise of nationalism, the dominance of capitalism, and the emergence of powerful state institutions—favors secularism and relegates religion to the purely private realm. This collection of essays on nationalism and religion in Europe and Asia challenges that view. Contributors show that religion ...