Building the Nation: N.F.S. Grundtvig and Danish National Identity

John A. Hall; Ove Korsgaard; Ove K. Pedersen

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Building the Nation

N.F.S. Grundtvig and Danish National Identity

John A. Hall , Ove Korsgaard and Ove K. Pedersen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2014

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How Denmark became Denmark through one of the most successful nation building processes in history.

Author / Editor information

John A. Hall is James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology at McGill University.

Ove Korsgaard is professor of education at the University of Aarhus.

Ove K. Pedersen is professor of comparative political economy at Copenhagen Business School.

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History Regional and National History Europe Northern Europe

Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction John A. Hall and Ove Korsgaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Theoretical Groundwork
Nation Building and State Building Francis Fukuyama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Icons of Nationalism Anthony D. Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Between Tradition and Modernity: Grundtvig and Cultural Nationalism Michael Böss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Enabling Conditions
Religious Revivalism in Sweden and Denmark Hanne Sanders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
The Nation as Event: The Dissolution of the Oldenburg Monarchy and Grundtvig’s Nationalism Uffe Østergård Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Why Denmark Did Not Become Switzerland Jason O. Jensen and John A. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
Grundtvig and the People
“Hand of King and Voice of People”: Grundtvig on Democracy and the Responsibility of the Self Tine Damsholt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
On the Church, the State, and the School: Grundtvig as Enlightenment Philosopher and Social Thinker Uffe Jonas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
How Grundtvig Became a Nation Builder Ove Korsgaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
Comparison
Fichte and Grundtvig as Educators of the People Per Øhrgaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Come Together: Thoughts and Theories on Social Cohesion in the Work of Nikolai Grundtvig and Émile Durkheim Katrine Baunvig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
“The Gordian Knot”: Grundtvig and British Liberalism Ole Vind Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Grundtvig and the Slavic Awakening in East Central Europe: (Con)textual Parallels, Mutual Perceptions Peter Bugge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Crisis of Religion and Nineteenth-Century Spiritual Reform: Varieties of Nation Building in Grundtvig and Emerson Troels Nørager Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	284
Community and Individuality: Grundtvigian and Kierkegaardian Protestantism in Denmark Matias Møl Dalsgaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
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Grundtvig’s Idea of a People’s High School and Its Historical Influence Ove Korsgaard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	315
Grundtvigianism as Practice and Experience Andrew Buckser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
The Popular Voicing of Sport: Comparative Aspects of Grundtvigian Movement Culture Henning Eichberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346
Windmills, Butter, and Bacon: The Circulation of Scientific Knowledge among Grundtvigians in the Decades around 1900 Hans Henrik Hjermitslev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	362
An Ongoing Influence: The Political Application of Grundtvig’s Ideas in the Debate on Danish Society, 2001–09 Esben Lunde Larsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	381
The Economic Consequences of the Size of Nations: Denmark in Comparative Perspective John L. Campbell and John A. Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	396
Conclusion Ove K. Pedersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	412
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	431

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October 1, 2014

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9780773596313

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4 b&w photos, 2 tables

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773596313

eBook ISBN: 9780773596313

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Building the Nation

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