Abstract
This book aims to re-examine the modernity of nationalism from the perspective of the theory of multiple modernities. The theory of multiple modernities proposes a fresh understanding of modernity by focusing on the workings of human agency. Modernity is a series of constitution and re-constitution of various cultural and political programmes which are proposed in order to fill the gap between the transcendent order and the mundane reality; it is a human endeavour to make sense of the environment and to bring about a better future by making changes to it. Nationalism is now conceptualised as a form of such cultural programmes that suggests a range of nation-centric world views, and is an integral part of modernity. The re-conceptualisation of nationalism is judged to be necessary because of the recent re-examination of the concept of modernity in social theory. If nationalism is inherently modern, any re-examination of modernity should invite a re-examination of nationalism as well.KeywordsHuman AgencyReligious MovementEuropean IdentityPolitical ProgrammeEndogenous DevelopmentThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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