The Struggle to Define a Nation: Rethinking Religious Nationalism in the Contemporary Islamic World

Published by Gorgias Press 2017

The Struggle to Define a Nation

Rethinking Religious Nationalism in the Contemporary Islamic World

Edited by: Marco Demichelis and Paolo Maggiolini

In the series The Modern Muslim World

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463237257

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In the present edited volume, a serious of internationally recognised scholars adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to the study of ‘religious nationalism’ and the ‘nationalization’ of religion, through focusing on case studies and the religious affiliations and denominations of Islam, Christianity and Judaism. The aim of this book is to reconsider the ongoing debate between different communities of the so-called Islamic World regarding the nature of the nation and state, and the role of religion in a nation-state’s institutional ground, both as a viable integrative or segregating factor. It is through focusing on the state dimension, as the subject of collective action or socio- cultural and political representation, that the book proposes to reconsider the relationship between religion, politics and identity in the perspective of ‘religious nationalism’ and the ‘nationalization’ of religion in the contemporary Islamic World.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
INTRODUCTION. THE STRUGGLE TO DEFINE A NATION: RETHINKING RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM IN THE CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC WORLD Marco Demichelis and Paolo Maggiolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM IN THE OFFICIAL CULTURE OF MULTI-CONFESSIONAL LEBANON Alexander D. M. Henley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
2. SYRIA’S LEBANONIZATION: AN HISTORICAL EXCURSUS WITHIN THE ‘NON-EXISTENCE’ OF SYRIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY Marco Demichelis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. NATION-NARRATING MONARCHIES: THE RELIGIOUS ‘SOFT POWER’ OF THE MOROCCAN AND JORDAN KINGS Menno Preuschaft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
4. SAUDI NATIONAL IDENTITY: HISTORICAL AND IDEATIONAL DIMENSIONS Elena Maestri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
5. RELIGION AND NATIONALISM: PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP IN THE MIDST OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT Paolo Maggiolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
6. ‘UNDER THE SAME FLAG’: THE COPTS OF EGYPT AND THE CHALLENGES OF NASSERIST NATIONALISM Alessia Melcangi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
7. THE LONER DESPERADO: OPPRESSION, NATIONALISM AND ISLAM IN OCCUPIED PALESTINE Ilan Pappe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
8. SELF-SACRIFICE AND FORGIVENESS: RELIGION AND NATIONALISM IN THE NEW ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN CINEMA Yael Ben-Zvi Morad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
9. RELIGION AND NATION BUILDING IN TURKEY: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONALIZED RELIGION IN THE CASE OF DIYANET Gül Şen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
10. JUNDALLAH AND RADICAL RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM Fatemeh Shayan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
11. NATIONALISM AND ISLAMISM AS OPPOSING DETERMINANTS OF IRANIAN NATIONAL IDENTITY Alam Saleh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
12. EVOLVING FACE OF PAKISTAN’S RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM Raja Muhammad Ali Saleem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	341
13. THE LIMITS OF SECULAR NATIONALISM: REVISITING THE POLITICS OF ISLAM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN BANGLADESH Humayun Kabir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	373
14. THE BROKEN MIRROR: HOW THE CONTEMPORARY JIHADIST NARRATIVE IS RE-SHAPING THE CLASSICAL DOCTRINE OF JIHAD Riccardo Redaelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
15. EMERGING TRENDS IN THE BROADER JIHADI GALAXY: BETWEEN RADICALIZATION AND NEW MODELS OF JIHADISM Andrea Plebani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
16. CONCLUSION 1: FROM THE NAHDA TO NOWHERE? Paolo Branca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	469
17. CONCLUSION 2: DEMOCRACY, NATIONALISM AND RELIGION IN THE ARAB WORLD Youssef M. Choueiri Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	497

Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Pages
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Published: July 12, 2017
ISBN: 9781463237257