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Article: Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism.(Book Review)
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- December 1, 2004
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Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism. By Anthony W. Marx. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. xviii + 258 pp. $26.00 cloth.
The thesis and detailed arguments of this book will be of interest to readers of this journal because of their implications for such matters in the history of early modern Christianity as toleration, religious persecution, confessionalization, the relation of church and state, and the relation of religion to the early stages of western nationalism. In examining state building and nation building in the modern West (and the distinction between these is important to the argument) through an examination of Spain, France, and ...