Protestant Nations Redefined

Changing Perceptions of National Identity in the Rhetoric of the English, Dutch and Swedish Public Churches, 1685-1772
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-90-04-14485-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 109, 666 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1355 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ihalainen, Pasi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
A Note on References, Dates and Quotations
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. State Sermons as a Medium of Official Political Ideology
2. Israelite Parallels in the Language of Nation
3. Interaction Between the Concepts of Nation and Protestantism
4. International Protestantism and the Limits of the Nation
5. The Stereotype of Popery in Constructions of the National Community
6. Interaction Between the Concepts of Nation and Protestant Prince
7. Definitions and Redefinitions of the Nation and Fatherland
8. The Rise of Classical Patriotism in the Language of Nation
9. Associations Between Freedom and Protestantism in the Language of Nation
10. The Rise of a Commercial Nation
11. The Language of Nature in Protestant State Sermons

Conclusion

Appendix: ‘National’ as an attribute in state sermons preached in the presence of the highest English/British authorities on national anniversaries, 1685–1772

Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Places

Über Autor(innen)

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).