Nation Form in the Global Age

Ethnographic Perspectives

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Irfan Ahmad, Jie Kang, BDS Ahmad, Irfan

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This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-01-30
Mått148 x 210 x 32 mm
Vikt532 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Diversities
Antal sidor386
FörlagSpringer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN9783030855826

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Irfan Ahmad is currently Professor of Anthropology at the department of Sociology at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey. Prior to this new appointment, Ahmad worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. A political anthropologist, he has taught and done research works at University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Monash University (Melbourne) and Australian Catholic University (Melbourne) in Australia. He is the author, most recently, of Religion As Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (2017) and editor of Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future (2021). Jie Kang is Research Fellow and Project Coordinator for ‘Cultural diversity in South-West China and South-East Asia' and 'Temples, rituals and the transformation of transnational network’ at MPI’s Department of Religious Diversity. She is the author of House Church Christianity in China: From Rural Preachers to City Pastors (2016).

Part 1. Introduction.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Imagining Alternatives to Globalization of the Nation Form - Irfan Ahmad and Jie Kang.- Chapter 2. The Oeuvre of Peter van der Veer - Irfan Ahmad.- Part 2. INDIA.- Chapter 3. On the ‘Impossibility’ of Atheism in Secular India - Stefan Binder.- Chapter 4. Hindu Nationalism and North Indian Music in the Global Age - Bob van der Linden.- Chapter 5. Muslim Bare Life in Contemporary India - Irfan Ahmad and Peter van der Veer.- Part 3. China.- Chapter 6. Rising, Becoming, Overcoding: On Chinese Nationalism in The Wandering Earth - Jeroen de Kloet.- Chapter 7. Nationalism and Chinese Protestant Christianity: From Anti-Imperialism to Islamophobia - Jie Kang.- Chapter 8. Digital Imaginaries and the Chinese Nation-State - Samuel Lengen.- Chapter 9. Moral Labour, the Nation and the State in Contemporary China - Xiao He.- Part 4. South Africa and the Middle East.- Chapter 10. Race, Animal Bodies and Religion: Sacrifice, Sensory Politics and Public Space in South Africa - Shaheed Tayob.- Chapter 11. The Rivalry Between Secular and Religious Nationalisms: On the Split in Iranian National Identity - Mahmoud Alinejad.- Part 5. Asia In/And Europe.- Chapter 12. Coming of Age in the Secular Republic of Fiction - Oskar Verkaaik.- Chapter 13. Socialization of Language and Morality at Chinese Christian Church of Berlin - Jingyang Yu.- Afterword: Reflections on Nationalism - Peter van der Veer.