and Eastern Europe. Though those analyses, the authors show how religion, far from
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
Yoko Aoshima (Kobe University, Japan)
1. Uniate Martyr Josaphat and his Role as a Confessionalizing, Integrating, and Nationalizing Element
Chiho Fukushima (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
2. Conversion and Culture in Russiäs Western Borderlands, 1800-55
Barbara Skinner (Indiana State University, US)
3. Religion in the Rhetoric of the 1863¿64 Uprising
Zita Medišauskien¿ (Lithuanian Institute of History, Lithuania)
4. Orthodox Christianity Emerging as an Ethical Principle in School Education in the 1860-70s
Yoko Aoshima (Kobe University, Japan)
5. The Roman Catholic Clergy and the Notion of Lithuanian National Identity
Vilma Žaltauskait¿ (Lithuanian Institute of History, Lithuania)
6. The Nobility in the Lithuanian National Project in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century: The Approach of the Catholic Clergy
Olga Mastianica-Stankevi¿ (Lithuanian Institute of History, Lithuania)
7. Praising Christ, Serving the Nation: The Ideology of the Catholic Newspaper Bie¿arus (1913-15)
Aliaksandr Bystryk (Central European University, Belarus)
8. Defining the Public Sphere by Organic Boundaries¿Syncretism in Creating National Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy
Taku Shinohara (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan)
9. ¿Building¿ Nationalism: St. Elisabeth Church in Lemberg
Dominika Rank (Ukrainian Catholic University, Ukraine)
10. Local Governance and Religion in the Kingdom of Poland, 1905¿14: Multireligious Relief Actions for Unemployed Workers in ¿ód¿
Kenshi Fukumoto (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
11. Max Weber and Eastern Europe: The Religious Background to Modern Nationalism
Hajime Konno (Aichi Prefectural University, Japan)
Index
About the author
Yoko Aoshima studies modern history of the Russian Empire with a focus on imperial policies, especially in the field of education and social transformation. She has taught at Aichi University and Kobe University, and recently joined as an associate professor at the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University.
Summary
Explroes the complicated relationship between religion and national consciousness in the modern world, highlighting various cases in Central and Eastern Europe. Through those analyses, the authors show how religion, far from disappearing, strongly impacted the emerging national consciousness.
