| Protestant Nations Redefined: Changing Perceptions of National Identity in the Rhetoric of the English, Dutch and Swedish Public Churches, 1685-1772 Contributor(s): Ihalainen, Pasi (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004144854 ISBN-13: 9789004144859 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: This study in comparative conceptual history reveals how the concepts of nation and fatherland were redefined within public religion in eighteenth-century England, the Netherlands and Sweden, leading to more positive and inclusive conceptions of nationhood and the gradual reconfiguration of national identities in more secular terms. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 261.709 |
| LCCN: 2005054244 |
| Series: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions |
| Physical Information: 688 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume reconstructs the various meanings attached to the concepts of nation and fatherland in eighteenth-century English, Dutch and Swedish political preaching. After discussing sermons as a medium of national ideology, it analyses the decline of the Israelite prototype of nation, the changing relationship between religious and national communities, international Protestantism, the weakening stereotype of popery, redefinitions of the Protestant monarchy, and the diversification of national vocabulary. It also compares the rise of non-theological languages of classical patriotism, freedom, economy and nature in three political cultures, revealing how the secular worship of nation arose even within the public presentation of religion. As post-nationalist comparative history, this study will be welcomed by readers with varied national and scholarly backgrounds interested in the Enlightenment and nationalism. |