In this book, the complicated relationship between religion and nation, as well as the relationship between nationalism and the process of secularization are discussed from a multidisciplinary perspective. In the last decades these issues attracted considerable research and public interest throughout the world.
The book consists of articles from renowned scholars dealing with the relations between
religion, secularism and nationalism in general, in prominent historical
patterns as expressed in German, English, American, Turkish, Polish and Russian
nationalism, and in the Jewish-Israeli context. The
book's articles shed light on the phenomena of nationalism and secularization,
in light of contemporary research on these two fascinating fields.