02297 a2200373 4500 1138811793 20250317100413.0 250312042014GB eng 9781138811799 Taylor & Francis GBP 51.99 BB 01 eng JPS thema JPFN thema QRM thema QRAM2 thema QDTS thema 1D bisac JPS bic JPFN bic HRC bic HRAM2 bic HPS bic 1D bisac POL000000 bisac REL000000 bisac 320.55094 bisac Philip W. Barker Religious Nationalism in Modern Europe If God be for Us 1 Oxford Routledge 20140704 210 p This volume examines the enduring nature of religious nationalism in modern Europe. Through a series of in-depth case studies covering Ireland, England, Poland, and Greece; the author argues that religious frontiers, or geographic lines of division between different and unique religions, are central to the formation of religiously-based national identities. Typically, as states develop economically and politically, religion plays a lesser role in both individual lives and national identity. However, at religious frontiers, religion becomes useful for differentiating and mobilizing groups of people. This is particularly true when the religious frontier also represents a threat or conflict. Although religion may not be the root of conflict in these instances, the conflict takes on religious tones because of its ability to unite an otherwise diverse population. Religion takes precedence over language, culture, or other national building-blocks because the "other" can best be distinguished in religious terms. The in-depth case studies allow for a deep historical understanding of the processes which converge to create a modern religious nation. Greatly expanding our current understanding of the conditions in which religious nationalism develops, this important book has implications for our understanding of religion and politics, secularization, European politics and foreign policy. 2600 2600