Protestant Nations Redefined: Changing Perceptions of National Identity in the Rehetoric of the English, Dutch, and Swedish Public Churches, 1685-1772This 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. |
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Contents
Anniversaries | 1 |
Chapter Two Israelite Parallels in the Language | 2 |
Rise of the British Nation | 3 |
Chapter Seven Definitions and Redefinitions of | 5 |
and Political Liberty | 9 |
Sermons | 10 |
Europe | 270 |
Swedes and Pitied Germans | 280 |
Protestant Element Within the Constitution | 348 |
Princes | 360 |
Chapter Eight The Rise of Classical Patriotism in | 443 |
Swedish Clerical Estate | 552 |
Chapter Eleven The Language of Nature in Protestant | 558 |
2 | 570 |
National as an attribute in state sermons | 601 |
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Chapter Five The Stereotype of Popery | 299 |
of the National Community | 324 |
Chapter Six Interaction Between the Concepts | 333 |
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