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Honey from the Lion - Christianity and the Ethics of Nationalism (Paperback, New)
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Honey from the Lion - Christianity and the Ethics of Nationalism (Paperback, New)
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Doug Gay explores the ethics of nationalism, recognising that for
many Christians, churches and theologians, nationalism has often
been seen as intrinsically unethical due to a presumption that at
best it involves privileging one nation's interests over anothers
and at worst it amounts to a form of ethnocentrism or even racism.
Gay argues that there is another tradition of thinking nationalism,
which can be related to state formation in early modern and modern
Europe and North America, decolonisation in the 20th C and the
reshaping of Central and Eastern Europe post 1989. This tradition
represents a political response to various forms of `empire' and an
assertion of a desire for self-determination in opposition to
domination by an imperial or colonial power. This trajectory has
not yet been adequately recognised within political theology and
Christian ethics, which remains suspicious of the language of
nationalism, while quietly acquiescing in its acceptance of the
political legitimacy of most existing nation-states. The book
offers a clear challenge to this approach, suggesting it lacks
self-awareness and moral authority and proposes a critical
rehabilitation of the discourse of nationalism, as necessary and
helpful in relation to creating an honest and transparent discourse
about the legitimacy of state boundaries. What makes any
nationalism - whether regnant or aspiring - `ethical' for Christian
theology?
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