Religion, ethnicity, and self-identity: nations in turmoil

Ethnicity and religion at the end of this century are fused in surprising, creative, and ominous ways. News stories connect words like Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant with various movements of peoples. Whereas ethnicity and religion have, in the past, succumbed to secular, urban,...

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Corporate Author: Salzburg Global Seminar (Other)
Contributors: Marty, Martin E. 1928- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Hanover [u.a.] Univ. Press of New England c1997
In:Year: 1997
Reviews:Religion, Ethnicity, and Self-Identity: Nations in Turmoil. Martin E. Marty , R. Scott Appleby (1998) (Davis, Scott)
Volumes / Articles:Show volumes/articles.
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Religion / National consciousness / Ethnicity / Fundamentalism
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Religion and international relations
B Conference program 1994 (Salzburg)
B Identification (religion)
B Religious Fundamentalism
B World Politics 1989-
B Ethnicity Religious aspects
B Nationalism Religious aspects
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Summary:Ethnicity and religion at the end of this century are fused in surprising, creative, and ominous ways. News stories connect words like Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant with various movements of peoples. Whereas ethnicity and religion have, in the past, succumbed to secular, urban, technological, ideological, educational, and mass communication influences, they now surface as a freshly volatile force in world cultures. To overcome these conventional influences, people establish personal and group identity, mutual security, and empowerment by creatively merging their ethnicity and religion. This collection of essays examines, in Martin Marty's terms, the "explosion of public faith and aggressive action
Ethnicity and religion at the end of this century are fused in surprising, creative, and ominous ways. News stories connect words like Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant with various movements of peoples. Whereas ethnicity and religion have, in the past, succumbed to secular, urban, technological, ideological, educational, and mass communication influences, they now surface as a freshly volatile force in world cultures. To overcome these conventional influences, people establish personal and group identity, mutual security, and empowerment by creatively merging their ethnicity and religion. This collection of essays examines, in Martin Marty's terms, the "explosion of public faith and aggressive action
Item Description:Salzburg Seminar books
ISBN:0874518156