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The Nation Form in the Global Age : Ethnographic Perspectives.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ahmad, Irfan.
Other Authors: Kang, Jie.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Global Diversities Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Essays in Honour of Peter van der Veer
  • Essays in Honour of Peter van der Veer
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Part I: Introduction
  • 1: Introduction: Imagining Alternatives to Globalization of the Nation Form
  • The Arguments
  • National Borders in the Time of a Borderless Virus
  • On Vaccinating Nationalism, or the Nexus Between Violence and Nationalism
  • Studying Nationalism, or Signing It?
  • Imagining Alternatives to Nationalism
  • Outline of Chapters
  • References
  • 2: The Oeuvre of Peter van der Veer
  • Introduction
  • Hinduism, Orientalism, Nationalism: 1985-1994
  • Comparison Past the Enlightenment Hubris: 1995 to the Present
  • On the Very Style, and a Little More
  • In Lieu of a Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II: India
  • 3: On the 'Impossibility' of Atheism in Secular India
  • Introduction
  • Organized Atheism, Religious Nationalism and State Secularism
  • The Atheist as Failure in OMG-Oh My God!
  • The Atheist as Alien in PK
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 4: Hindu Nationalism and North Indian Music in the Global Age
  • Introduction1
  • Stigmatization: Hindu National Music Reforms and the Ustads
  • Institutional Marginalization
  • The 'Secular' Ustad at a Time of Hindu Nationalist Majority Politics and Violence
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 5: Muslim Bare Life in Contemporary India
  • Introduction
  • Secular Sovereignty
  • Religious Violence
  • Religious Conversion
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part III: China
  • 6: Rising, Becoming, Overcoding: On Chinese Nationalism in The Wandering Earth
  • Rising
  • Becoming
  • Overcoding
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 7: Nationalism and Chinese Protestant Christianity: From Anti-imperialism to Islamophobia
  • Introduction
  • Chinese Protestantism and Anti-imperialism (Before 1949).
  • The Three-Self Patriotic Movement and the Emergence of the House Church (1949-1979)
  • Communism, Patriotism and Christianity (1980-2000)
  • Chinese Missionary Movement and Nationalism (2000-Present)
  • China's Rise as God's Blessing
  • Constructing (a New?) Otherness
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 8: Digital Imaginaries and the Chinese Nation State
  • Rockets, Smartphones and the Race for Technological Development
  • Digital Imaginaries
  • Digital Flattening
  • Digital Unification
  • Digital Experience
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 9: Moral Labour, the Nation and the State in Contemporary China
  • The State, Labour and the Socialist Utopia
  • The Rural-Urban Divide, Hard Work, Inclusion and Exclusion
  • Labour, Money and the Nation
  • The Nation as a Utopia of Investors
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part IV: South Africa and the Middle East
  • 10: Race, Animal Bodies and Religion: Sacrifice, Sensory Politics and Public Space in South Africa
  • Suspicions of Sacrifice: Crowds, Race and Animal Bodies
  • Skaapgate: Sacrifice, Ancestors and Exorcizing Racism
  • Religious Nationalism in a Post-apartheid Neoliberal Moment
  • The Return to Race in South Africa: From Rainbow Nation to Racial Politics
  • Sacrifice as Politics: Cleansing Cape Town and Attacking the Nerve Centre of Racism
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 11: The Rivalry Between Secular and Religious Nationalisms: On the Split in Iranian National Identity
  • Introduction
  • Early Modern Iranian Nationalism and the Constitutional Revolution
  • The Rise and Fall of Imperial Nationalism
  • Religious Nationalism Inspiring an Islamic Revolution
  • Shiite Nationalism in State Power
  • External Wars and the Consolidation of Shiite Nationalism
  • The Limitations of Shiite Nationalism
  • References
  • Part V: Asia in/and Europe
  • 12: Coming of Age in the Secular Republic of Fiction
  • Karachi Revisited.
  • Dutch Norms and Values
  • Five Novels
  • Secular Passion
  • References
  • 13: Socialization of Language and Morality at Chinese Christian Church of Berlin
  • The Chinese Christian Church of Berlin
  • Students Leave, Families Come
  • A 'natural environment' of Speaking Chinese
  • 'Noah's Ark': A Bible Group Case Study
  • The Superiority of Being a Christian
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 14: Afterword: Reflections on Nationalism
  • References
  • Index.

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