Series Editor's Preface. Introduction by John Breuilly. Acknowledgements. 1. Definitions. State and nation. The nation. 2. Culture in Agrarian Society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers. 3. Industrial Society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture. 4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture. 5. What is a Nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth. 6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus. 7. A Typology of Nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism. 8. The Future of Nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?. 9. Nationalism and Ideology. Who is for Nuremberg?. One nation, one state. 10. Conclusion. What is not being said. Summary. Select bibliography. Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie. Index

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1.. HARD CASES 5. Legal Rights A. Legislation . . . We might therefore do well to consider how a philosophical judge might develop, in appropriate cases, theories of what legislative purpose and legal principles require. We shall find that he would construct these theories in the same manner as a philosophical referee would construct the character of a game. I have invented, for this purpose, a lawyer of superhuman skill, learning, patience and acumen, whom I shall call Hercules. I suppose that Hercules is a judge in some representative American jurisdiction. I assume that he accepts the main uncontroversial constitutive and regulative rules of the law in his jurisdiction. He accepts, that is, that statutes have the general power to create and extinguish legal rights, and that judges have the general duty to follow earlier decisions of their court or higher courts whose rationale, as l

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he global triumph of capitalism at the millennium, its Second Coming, raises a number of conundrums for our understanding of history at the end of the century. Some of its corollaries—“plagues of the ‘new world order,’” Jacques Derrida (1994: 91) calls them, unable to resist apocalyptic imagery—have been the subject of clamorous debate. Others receive less mention. Thus, for example, populist polemics have dwelt on the planetary conjuncture, for good or ill, of “homogenization and difference” (e.g., Barber 1992); on the simultaneous, synergistic spiraling of wealth and poverty; on the rise of a “new feudalism,” a phoenix disfigured, of worldwide proportions (cf. Connelly and Kennedy 1994).1 For its part, scholarly debate has focused on the confounding effects of rampant

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Millennial Capitalism: First Thoughts on a Second Coming

Recent discussions in development have moved away from holistic theorisation towards more localised, empirical and inductive approaches. In development practice there has been a parallel move towards local ‘participation’ and ‘empowerment’, which has produced, albeit with very different agendas, a high level of agreement between actors and institutions of the ‘new’ Left and the ‘new’ Right. This paper examines the manifestations of this move in four key political arenas: decentralised service delivery, participatory development, social capital formation and local development, and collective actions for ‘radical democracy’. We argue that, by focusing so heavily on ‘the local’, the see manifestations tend to underplay both local inequalities and power relations as well as national and transnational economic and political forces. Following from this, we advocate a stronger emphasis on the politics of the local, ie on the political use of ‘the local’ by hegemonic and counter-hegemonic interests.

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Acknowledgments. 1. INTRODUCTION RELIGION AND POLITICS DEFINED Church and the state in comparative perspective, Explaining religious deprivatization. Conclusion. 2. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: BUCKING THE TREND OF WESTERN SECULARISATION Civil religion and church-state relations, Religious pluralism and politics, Secularisation and politics in America, The New Christian Right, US Catholicism: from private to public denomination, the Nation of Islam, Conclusion. 3. LATIN AMERICA: Catholic hegemony under attack, Catholic church-state relations, The Medellin conference and the popular church, Base Christian communities, Ideological conflict in the Catholic Church in the 1980s, The evangelical Protestant challenge, Protestants and politics, Conclusion. 4. WESTERN EUROPE: SECULARISATION AND THE RELIGIOUS RESPONSE Church-sate relations, Churches and secularisation, Case studies, Resisting secularisation: religion and politics in Northern Ireland and among Muslims in Western Europe, Conclusion. 5. EASTERN EUROPE: FROM COMMUNISM TO BELIEF Church and state during the communist era, Religion and naitonalism in the USSR's satellites, Churches and oppostition in Poland, East Germany and Russia, Conclusion. 6. AFRICA: RELIGIOUS COMPETITION AND STATE POWER Religion and politics during the colonial era, Church-state relaitons: 1960s to 1980s, Religion and democratic change, National Muslim organisations and political change, Conclusion. 7. THE MIDDLE-EAST: RELIGIONS IN COLLISION Islam and Judaism in political perspective, Religion and politics in Israel, Islamist movements in Egypt, Algeria and Turkey, Conclusion. 8. CENTRAL ASIA: THE RETURN OF ISLAM TO POLITICS AFTER COMMUNISM Islam in Central Asia: the impact of the 1917 revolution, Political Islam in Central Asia after the USSR, Case Studies: political Islam in Central Asia, Conclusion. 9. POLITICS AND RELIGION IN INDIA Hindu and Sikh nationalism What is Hinduism?, Hindus and politics in premodern India, Hinduism and nationalism, Hindu nationalism and politics in the 1980s and 1990s, The genesis and appeal of Hindu nationalism, Sikhs and politics, Conclusion. 10. BUDDHISM AND POLITICS IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA The essentials of Buddhism, Therevada Buddhism in South-east Asia, Case studies: Thailand, Burma and Cambodia, Conclusion. 11. CONCLUSIONS Postmodernism and the sociopolitical salience of religion, The complexities of secularisation in the postmodern world, Religious resistance to secularisation.

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