The Nation Form in the Global Age: Ethnographic Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783030855826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 408 str.

Irfan Ahmad; Jie Kang

Spis treści

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

 

O autorze

Irfan Ahmad is currently Professor of Anthropology at the department of Sociology at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey. Prior to this new appointment, Ahmad worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. A political anthropologist, he has taught and done research works at University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Monash University (Melbourne) and Australian Catholic University (Melbourne) in Australia. He is the author, most recently, of Religion As Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (2017) and editor of Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future (2021).

 

Jie Kang is  Research Fellow and Project Coordinator for ‘Cultural diversity in South-West China and South-East Asia' and 'Temples, rituals and the transformation of transnational network’ at MPI’s Department of Religious Diversity. She is the author of House Church Christianity in China: From Rural Preachers to City Pastors (2016).  

 

Blurb

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.