Religious Otherness And National Identity In Scandinavia C 1790 1960

Author : Frode Ulvund
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110657760

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Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790–1960 by Frode Ulvund Pdf

The author discusses how religious groups, especially Jews, Mormons and Jesuits, were labeled as foreign and constructed as political, moral and national threats in Scandinavia in different periods between c. 1790 and 1960. Key questions are who articulated such opinions, how was the threat depicted, and to what extent did it influence state policies towards these groups. A special focus is given to Norway, because the Constitution of 1814 included a ban against Jews (repelled in 1851) and Jesuits (repelled in 1956), and because Mormons were denied the status of a legal religion until freedom of religion was codified in the Constitution in 1964. The author emphasizes how the construction of religious minorities as perils of society influenced the definition of national identities in all Scandinavia, from the late 18th Century until well after WWII. The argument is that Jews, Mormons and Jesuits all were constructed as "anti-citizens", as opposites of what it meant to be "good" citizens of the nation. The discourse that framed the need for national protection against foreign religious groups was transboundary. Consequently, transnational stereotypes contributed significantly in defining national identities.

Author : Frode Ulvund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Antisemitism
ISBN : LCCN:2020718230

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Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, C. 1790-1960 by Frode Ulvund Pdf

Author : Frode Ulvund
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110654424

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Religious Otherness and National Identity in Scandinavia, c. 1790–1960 by Frode Ulvund Pdf

The author discusses how religious groups, especially Jews, Mormons and Jesuits, were labeled as foreign and constructed as political, moral and national threats in Scandinavia in different periods between c. 1790 and 1960. Key questions are who articulated such opinions, how was the threat depicted, and to what extent did it influence state policies towards these groups. A special focus is given to Norway, because the Constitution of 1814 included a ban against Jews (repelled in 1851) and Jesuits (repelled in 1956), and because Mormons were denied the status of a legal religion until freedom of religion was codified in the Constitution in 1964. The author emphasizes how the construction of religious minorities as perils of society influenced the definition of national identities in all Scandinavia, from the late 18th Century until well after WWII. The argument is that Jews, Mormons and Jesuits all were constructed as "anti-citizens", as opposites of what it meant to be "good" citizens of the nation. The discourse that framed the need for national protection against foreign religious groups was transboundary. Consequently, transnational stereotypes contributed significantly in defining national identities.

Author : Vibeke Moe Bjørnbekk
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9783111329321

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Narratives about Jews Among Muslims in Norway by Vibeke Moe Bjørnbekk Pdf

What is the nature of Muslim-Jewish relations in Europe today? Based on qualitative interview data, this book explores narratives about Jews among Muslims in Norway. Drawing on culturally embedded narratives as well as personal experiences, interviewees reflect on the relationship between Jews and Muslims. The interreligious exchange between Islam and Judaism is as old as Islam. Today, the Arab-Israeli conflict has become an important frame of reference in the public discourse on Muslim-Jewish relations. The narratives presented in this book delineate shifting community boundaries and identifications that transcend dichotomised notions of "Muslims versus Jews." The analysis shows how Jewish history in Europe and the history of modern antisemitism serve as interpretative keys in the narratives, used for explaining the situation of the Muslim minority today. Furthermore, the book demonstrates how interviewees' perceptions of society's attitudes toward Muslim and Jewish experiences also strongly influence their perceptions of Muslim-Jewish relations.

Author : Ruth Hemstad,Peter Stadius
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000903553

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Nordic Experiences in Pan-nationalisms by Ruth Hemstad,Peter Stadius Pdf

This book seeks to reassess and shed new light on pan-nationalisms in general and on Scandinavianism/Nordism in particular, by seeing them as possible futures and as interconnected ideas and practices across and beyond Europe. An actor and practice oriented approach is applied at the expense of more essentialist categorizations of what pan-nationalism is, or is not to underline both the synchronic and diachronic diversity of various pan-national movements. A range of expert international scholars discuss encounters, transfers, similarities and differences among pan-movements in Norden and Europe based on a broad empirical material, focusing on Scandinavianism/Nordism, pan-Slavism, pan-Turanism, pan-Germanism and Greater Netherlandism, and the position of Britishness in Great Britain. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of nationalism, European history, European studies and Scandinavian studies, history, social science, political geography, civil society and literary studies.

Author : Cordelia Heß
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110757439

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The Medieval Archive of Antisemitism in Nineteenth-Century Sweden by Cordelia Heß Pdf

The significance of religion for the development of modern racist antisemitism is a much debated topic in the study of Jewish-Christian relations. This book, the first study on antisemitism in nineteenth-century Sweden, provides new insights into the debate from the specific case of a country in which religious homogeneity was the considered ideal long into the modern era. Between 1800 and 1900, approximately 150 books and pamphlets were printed in Sweden on the subject of Judaism and Jews. About one third comprised of translations mostly from German, but to a lesser extent also from French and English. Two thirds were Swedish originals, covering all genres and topics, but with a majority on religious topics: conversion, supersessionism, and accusations of deicide and bloodlust. The latter stem from the vastly popular medieval legends of Ahasverus, Pilate, and Judas which were printed in only slightly adapted forms and accompanied by medieval texts connecting these apocryphal figures to contemporary Jews, ascribing them a physical, essential, and biological coherence and continuity – a specific Jewish temporality shaped in medieval passion piety, which remained functional and intelligible in the modern period. Relying on medieval models and their combination of religious and racist imagery, nineteenth-century debates were informed by a comprehensive and mostly negative "knowledge" about Jews.

Author : Øystein Sørensen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Nationalism
ISBN : 8212002519

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Nordic Paths to National Identity in the Nineteenth Century by Øystein Sørensen Pdf

Author : John A. Hall,Ove Korsgaard,Ove K. Pedersen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773596313

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Building the Nation by John A. Hall,Ove Korsgaard,Ove K. Pedersen Pdf

How Denmark became Denmark through one of the most successful nation building processes in history.

Author : Ildar H. Garipzanov,Rosalind Bonté
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 2503549241

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Conversion and Identity in the Viking Age by Ildar H. Garipzanov,Rosalind Bonté Pdf

This volume presents a state-of-the-art collection of essays on the socio-cultural aspects of the conversion to Christianity in Viking-Age Scandinavia and the Scandinavian colonies of the North Atlantic. The nine scholars, drawn from the disciplines of history, archaeology, and literary studies, have been brought together to address the overarching topic of how conversion affected peoples' identities - both as individuals, and as members of broader religious, political, and social groups - on either side of the 'divide' between paganism and Christianity. Central to this exploration is the question of how existing and changing identities shaped the progress of conversion as a process of societal, and more specifically cultural, change. Each of the papers in this volume provides examples of the complicated patterns of interaction, influence, and identity-modification that were characteristic of the transition from paganism to Christianity in the Viking world. The authors look for new ways of understanding and describing this gradual intermingling between the two fuzzy-edged religious communities, and they provide a challenging redefinition of the nature of conversion in the Viking Age that will be of interest both to a wide variety of medievalists and to all those who work on conversion in its theoretical and historical aspects.

Author : G. Delanty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230379657

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Inventing Europe by G. Delanty Pdf

A critical analysis of the idea of Europe and the limits and possibilities of a European identity in the broader perspective of history. This book argues that the crucial issue is the articulation of a new identity that is based on post-national citizenship rather than ambivalent notions of unity.

Author : Håkon Hermanstrand,Asbjørn Kolberg,Trond Risto Nilssen,Leiv Sem
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783030050290

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The Indigenous Identity of the South Saami by Håkon Hermanstrand,Asbjørn Kolberg,Trond Risto Nilssen,Leiv Sem Pdf

This open access book is a novel contribution in two ways: It is a multi-disciplinary examination of the indigenous South Saami people in Fennoscandia, a social and cultural group that often is overlooked as it is a minority within the Saami minority. Based on both historical material such as archaeological evidence, 20th century newspapers, and postcard motives as well as current sources such as ongoing land-right trials and recent works of historiography, the articles highlight the culture and living conditions of this indigenous group, mapping the negotiations of different identities through the interaction of Saami and non-Saami people through the ages. By illuminating this under-researched field, the volume also enriches the more general debate on global indigenous history, and sheds light on the construction of a Scandinavian identity and the limits of the welfare state and the myth of heterogeneity and equality.

Author : Annika Lindskog,Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787353992

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Introduction to Nordic Cultures by Annika Lindskog,Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen Pdf

Introduction to Nordic Cultures is an innovative, interdisciplinary introduction to Nordic history, cultures and societies from medieval times to today. The textbook spans the whole Nordic region, covering historical periods from the Viking Age to modern society, and engages with a range of subjects: from runic inscriptions on iron rings and stone monuments, via eighteenth-century scientists, Ibsen’s dramas and turn-of-the-century travel, to twentieth-century health films and the welfare state, nature ideology, Greenlandic literature, Nordic Noir, migration, ‘new’ Scandinavians, and stereotypes of the Nordic. The chapters provide fundamental knowledge and insights into the history and structures of Nordic societies, while constructing critical analyses around specific case studies that help build an informed picture of how societies grow and of the interplay between history, politics, culture, geography and people. Introduction to Nordic Cultures is a tool for understanding issues related to the Nordic region as a whole, offering the reader engaging and stimulating ways of discovering a variety of cultural expressions, historical developments and local preoccupations. The textbook is a valuable resource for undergraduate students of Scandinavian and Nordic studies, as well as students of European history, culture, literature and linguistics.

Author : William Styron
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936317134

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Set This House on Fire by William Styron Pdf

A New York Times bestseller by the author of Sophie’s Choice: Two Americans search for the truth about a mysterious long-ago murder in Italy. Shortly after World War II, in the village of Sambuco, Italy, two men—Virginia attorney Peter Leverett and South Carolina artist Cass Kinsolving—crossed paths with Mason Flagg. They both had their own reactions to the gregarious and charismatic movie mogul’s son. For the impressionable Peter, it was something close to awe. For the alcoholic Cass, it was unsettled rage. Then, after the rape and murder of a peasant girl, Mason’s body was found at the base of a cliff—an apparent suicide. He’d been distraught, the authorities said, over committing such a heinous crime. Peter and Cass went their separate ways, and never spoke of it again. Now, years later, Peter is still haunted by what he knows—and by what he doesn’t. He’s sought out Cass in Charleston for closure, and something close to the truth. Together both men will share their tales of that terrible season in Italy, each with their own ghosts—and their own reasons to exorcise them. But neither Peter nor Cass is prepared for where this path of revenge, complicity, and atonement will take them. A profound exploration of the evil that men do, and what the innocent must endure to accommodate it, Set This House on Fire is more than a byzantine murder mystery, it’s “one of the finest novels of our times” from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Confessions of Nat Turner, Darkness Visible, and other modern classics (San Francisco Chronicle). This ebook features a new illustrated biography of William Styron, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Styron family and the Duke University Archives.

Author : Satu Gröndahl,Eila Rantonen
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789522229922

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Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden by Satu Gröndahl,Eila Rantonen Pdf

Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden presents new comparative perspectives on transnational literary studies. This collection provides a contribution to the production of new narratives of the nation. The focus of the contributions is contemporary fiction relating to experiences of migration. When people are in motion, it changes nations, cultures and peoples. The volume explores the ways in which transcultural connections have affected the national self-understanding in the Swedish and Finnish context. It also presents comparative aspects on the reception of literary works and explores the intersectional perspectives of identities including class, gender, ethnicity, "race" and disability. This volume discusses multicultural writing, emerging modes of writing and generic innovations. Further, it also demonstrates the complexity of grouping literatures according to nation and ethnicity. This collection is of particular interest to students and scholars in literary and Nordic studies as well as transnational and migration studies.

Author : J. Berting
Publisher : Eburon Uitgeverij B.V.
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789059721203

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Europe by J. Berting Pdf

Modern Europe is a patchwork quilt in which a diverse array of national cultures have been pieced into one community. In Europe: A Heritage, a Challenge, a Promise, Jan Berting reckons with a continent at a turning point in its history, arguing that Europe must balance its urge to modernize with a respect for its shared legacy. As Europe struggles with the tension between its past and its future, Berting pinpoints challenges to modernization and proposes intriguing solutions. He addresses topics as varied as the rise of Islam, political liberalism, and individual freedoms in this comprehensive volume sure to interest all those invested in the future of Europe.