Religion, Ethnicity, and Self-Identity
Subtitle: Nations in Turmoil
Contributors: Martin E. Marty (Editor); R. Scott Appleby (Editor)
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Salzburg Seminar; University Press of New England
Published: April 15, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780874518153
Subjects: Ethnic studies; Religion: general; Sociology of Religion; Religion; Religion And Politics; Religion - Church History; Religious fundamentalism; Religious aspects; Anthropology - Cultural; General; Religion / General; Ethnicity; Identification (Religion); Nationalism
Description: Ethnicity and religion at the end of this century are fused in surprising, creative, and ominous ways. News stories connect words like Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant with various movements of peoples. Whereas ethnicity and religion have, in the past, succumbed to secular, urban, technological, ideological, educational, and mass communication influences, they now surface as a freshly volatile force in world cultures.

To overcome these conventional influences, people establish personal and group identity, mutual security, and empowerment by creatively merging their ethnicity and religion. This collection of essays examines, in Martin Marty's terms, the "explosion of public faith and aggressive action."