The Nation Form in the Global Age

This open access book argues that contrary to dominant approaches that view nationalism as unaffected by globalization or globalization undermining the nation-state, the contemporary world is actually marked by globalization of the nation form.

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction: Imagining Alternatives to Globalization of the Nation Form

Irfan Ahmad and Jie Kang

Chapter 2: The Oeuvre of Peter van der Veer

Irfan Ahmad

Part 2: INDIA

Chapter 3: On the ''Impossibility'' of Atheism in Secular India

Stefan Binder

Chapter 4: Hindu Nationalism and North Indian Music in the Global Age

Bob van der Linden

Chapter 5: Muslim Bare Life in Contemporary India

Irfan Ahmad and Peter van der Veer

Part 3: China

Chapter 6: Rising, Becoming, Overcoding: On Chinese Nationalism in The Wandering Earth

Jeroen de Kloet

Chapter 7: Nationalism and Chinese Protestant Christianity: From Anti-Imperialism to Islamophobia

Jie Kang

Chapter 8: Digital Imaginaries and the Chinese Nation State

Samuel Lengen

Chapter 9: Moral Labour, the Nation and the State in Contemporary China

Xiao He

Part 4: South Africa and the Middle East

Chapter 10: Race, Animal Bodies and Religion: Sacrifice, Sensory Politics and Public Space in South Africa

Shaheed Tayob

Chapter 11: The Rivalry Between Secular and Religious Nationalisms: On the Split in Iranian National Identity

Mahmoud Alinejad

Part 5: Asia In/And Europe

Chapter 12: Coming of Age in the Secular Republic of Fiction

Oskar Verkaaik

Chapter 13: Socialization of Language and Morality at Chinese Christian Church of Berlin

Jingyang Yu

Afterword: Reflections on Nationalism

Peter van der Veer

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