Leʼumiyut ṿe-ḥilun

In this book, the complicated relationship between religion and nation, as well as the relationship between nationalism and the process of secularization are discussed from a multidisciplinary perspective. In the last decades these issues attracted considerable research and public interest throughout the world. The book consists of articles from renowned scholars dealing with the relations between religion, secularism and nationalism in general, in prominent historical patterns as expressed in German, English, American, Turkish, Polish and Russian nationalism, and in the Jewish-Israeli context. The issues raised in this book are relevant not only to historical and sociological scholarship but also to our understanding of the situation we live in as Israelis and citizens of the world.