CONTENTS

Introducing Civil Religion, Nationalism and Globalisation (Annika Hvithamar and Margit Warburg)

PART I CIVIL RELIGION AND NATIONALISM

Chapter One Hierarchy and Covenant in the Formation of Nations (Anthony D. Smith)

Chapter Two Durkheim's Political Sociology. Civil Religion, Nationalism and Globalisation (Marcela Cristi)

Chapter Three American Civil Religion as State-Mythology (Niels Reeh)

Chapter Four Nationalism and Civil Religion. What is the Difference? (Annika Hvithamar)

PART II (CIVIL RELIGION IN NATION–STATES)

Chapter Five Nationalism and Religion: The Case of Japanese Nationalism and State Shinto (Atsuko Ichijo)

Chapter Six Dominion of the Gods: Religious Continuity and Change in a Canadian Context (Roger O'Toole)

Chapter Seven Civil Religion in the Danish Parliament (Brian Arly Jacobsen)

Chapter Eight Scandinavian Folk Churches, Chauvinism and Xenophobia (Pål Ketil Botvar)

Chapter Nine Civil Religion in an Age of Changing Churches and Societies. A look at the Nordic Situation (Pål Repstad)

Chapter Ten Operationalising the Concept of Civil Religion: Cross-Cultural fi ndings from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Slovenia and the United States of America (Sergej Flere)

PART III CIVIL RELIGION IN A GLOBAL ERA

Chapter Eleven In and Out of Place: Varieties of Religious Locations in a Globalising World (Eileen Barker)

Chapter Twelve Nationalism as Civil Religion and Rituals of Belonging before and aft er the Global Turn (Ulf Hedetoft)

Chapter Thirteen Transnational Civil Religion: The Fourth of July in Denmark (Margit Warburg)

Contributors

Index