The Nation Form in the Global Age : Ethnographic Perspectives / edited by Irfan Ahmad, Jie Kang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahmad, Irfan.

Contributor:

Kang, Jie.

Series:

Global Diversities, 2662-2599

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Political sociology.

Religion and sociology.

Ethnography.

Political Sociology.

Sociology of Religion.

Local Subjects:

Ethnography.

Political Sociology.

Sociology of Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2022.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These incisive essays explore nationalist violence and ethno-religious purification in Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, India, and China. Readers will encounter the extreme precarity of Islamic minorities and migrants, as well as inspiring explorations of alternative imaginaries beyond the nation form. Kenneth Dean, Professor, National University of Singapore. This excellent edited volume is a tribute to a major anthropologist of our times that combines approaches based on comparison with an analytic attention to circulation, thus showing us that the nation-form dominates our world because of its viral capacity to find hosts in highly variable cultural, religious and political contexts, which it then pushes in the direction of xenophobia, exclusion and populism. Arjun Appadurai, Max Weber Global Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York, USA This collection of global ethnographies makes evident that the global expansion of the nation is as intrinsic to processes of globalization as the global expansion of capitalist markets. It also shows that in our global age religion and its binary secular remain inextricably intertwined with both dynamics of globalization. José Casanova, Emeritus Professor, Georgetown University, USA 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. Based on fieldwork in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East and drawing, among others, on Peter van der Veer’s comparative work on religion and nation, it discuss practices of nationalism visa-a-vis migration, rituals of sacrifice and prayer, music, media, e-commerce, Islamophobia, bare life, secularism, literature and atheism. The volume offers new understandings of nationalism in a broader perspective. Irfan Ahmad is Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. Jie Kang is Research Fellow and Project Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9783030855802

3030855805

OCLC:

1299382923