Protestant Nations Redefined - Changing Perceptions of National Identity in the Rhetoric of the English, Dutch and Swedish Public Churches, 1685-1772

This study in comparative conceptual history reveals how the concepts of nation and fatherland were redefined within public religion in eighteenth-century England, the Netherlands and Sweden, leading to more positive and inclusive conceptions of nationhood and the gradual reconfiguration of national identities in more secular terms.

Product details

• Authors: Pasi Ihalainen
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.09.2005
• EAN: 9789004144859
• ISBN: 978-90-04-14485-9
• No. of pages: 688
• Weight: 1355 g
• Series: Studies in Medieval and Reform
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries