Protestant Nations Redefined: Changing Perceptions of National Identity in the Rhetoric of the English, Dutch and Swedish Public Churches, 1685-1772
Oct 2005 · BRILL
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This volume reconstructs the various meanings attached to the concepts of nation and fatherland in eighteenth-century English, Dutch and Swedish political preaching. After discussing sermons as a medium of national ideology, it analyses the decline of the Israelite prototype of nation, the changing relationship between religious and national communities, international Protestantism, the weakening stereotype of popery, redefinitions of the Protestant monarchy, and the diversification of national vocabulary. It also compares the rise of non-theological languages of classical patriotism, freedom, economy and nature in three political cultures, revealing how the secular worship of nation arose even within the public presentation of religion. As post-nationalist comparative history, this study will be welcomed by readers with varied national and scholarly backgrounds interested in the Enlightenment and nationalism.
This volume reconstructs the various meanings attached to the concepts of nation and fatherland in eighteenth-century English, Dutch and Swedish political preaching. After discussing sermons as a medium of national ideology, it analyses the decline of the Israelite prototype of nation, the changi...
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Pasi Ihalainen, Ph.D. (1999) in General History, University of Jyväskylä, is a Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland. He has previously analysed the concepts of party in his Discourse on Political Pluralism in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Finnish Historical Society, 1999).
Pasi Ihalainen, Ph.D. (1999) in General History, University of Jyväskylä, is a Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland. He has previously analysed the concepts of party in his Discourse on Political Pluralism in Early Eighteenth-Century England (Finnish Historical Society, 1999).
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