Presenting case studies from sixteen countries on five continents, The Catholic Church and the Nation-State paints a rich portrait of a complex and paradoxical

For the last two centuries, the nation state has posed a formidable challenge to multinational empires. It has served as a base for modernization, secularizatio

This book argues that the last four decades have seen profound and important changes in the nature and social location of religion, and that those changes are b

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Offers a new framework for understanding how religion and nationalism interact across diverse countries and religious traditions.