The Nation Form in the Global Age Ethnographic Perspectives

Part 1: Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction: Imagining Alternatives to Globalization of the Nation Form

Irfan Ahmad and Jie Kang

Irfan Ahmad

Part 2: INDIA

Chapter 3: On the ‘Impossibility’ of Atheism in Secular India

Stefan Binder

Chapter 4: Hindu Nationalism and North Indian Music in the Global Age

Chapter 5: Muslim Bare Life in Contemporary India

Irfan Ahmad and Peter van der Veer

Part 3: China

Chapter 6: Rising, Becoming, Overcoding: On Chinese Nationalism in The Wandering Earth

Jeroen de Kloet

Jie Kang

Chapter 8: Digital Imaginaries and the Chinese Nation State

Samuel Lengen

Chapter 9: Moral Labour, the Nation and the State in Contemporary China

Part 4: South Africa and the Middle East

Chapter 10: Race, Animal Bodies and Religion: Sacrifice, Sensory Politics and Public Space in South Africa

Shaheed Tayob

Chapter 11: The Rivalry Between Secular and Religious Nationalisms: On the Split in Iranian National Identity

Mahmoud Alinejad

Part 5: Asia In/And Europe

Chapter 12: Coming of Age in the Secular Republic of Fiction

Chapter 13: Socialization of Language and Morality at Chinese Christian Church of Berlin

Afterword:  Reflections on Nationalism

Peter van der Veer

Irfan Ahmad is currently Professor of Anthropology at the department of Sociology at Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul, Turkey. Prior to this new appointment, Ahmad worked as Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany. A political anthropologist, he has taught and done research works at University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University in the Netherlands and Monash University (Melbourne) and Australian Catholic University (Melbourne) in Australia. He is the author, most recently, of Religion As Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace (2017) and editor of Anthropology and Ethnography are Not Equivalent: Reorienting Anthropology for the Future (2021).

Jie Kang is  Research Fellow and Project Coordinator for ‘Cultural diversity in South-West China and South-East Asia' and 'Temples, rituals and the transformation of transnational network’ at MPI’s Department of Religious Diversity. She is the author of House Church Christianity in China: From Rural Preachers to City Pastors (2016).