RT Book T1 Religion, ethnicity, and self-identity: nations in turmoil A2 Marty, Martin E. 1928-2025 LA English PP Hanover u.a. PB Univ. Press of New England YR 1997 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/220401721 AB Ethnicity and religion at the end of this century are fused in surprising, creative, and ominous ways. News stories connect words like Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant with various movements of peoples. Whereas ethnicity and religion have, in the past, succumbed to secular, urban, technological, ideological, educational, and mass communication influences, they now surface as a freshly volatile force in world cultures. To overcome these conventional influences, people establish personal and group identity, mutual security, and empowerment by creatively merging their ethnicity and religion. This collection of essays examines, in Martin Marty's terms, the "explosion of public faith and aggressive action NO Salzburg Seminar books CN BL65.E75 SN 0-87451-815-6 K1 Ethnicity : Religious aspects K1 Nationalism : Religious aspects K1 Religious Fundamentalism K1 Identification (religion) K1 Religion and international relations K1 World Politics : 1989- K1 Aufsatzsammlung K1 Konferenzschrift : 1994 : Salzburg