1 Nation Building and State Building

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 3
5. Theoretical Groundwork
6. Nation Building and State Building 29
7. Icons of Nationalism 51
8. Between Tradition and Modernity: Grundtvig and Cultural Nationalism 79
9. Enabling Conditions
10. Religious Revivalism in Sweden and Denmark 95
11. The Nation as Event: The Dissolution of the Oldenburg Monarchy and Grundtvig’s Nationalism 110
12. Why Denmark Did Not Become Switzerland 134
13. Grundtvig and the People
14. “Hand of King and Voice of People”: Grundtvig on Democracy and the Responsibility of the Self 151
15. On the Church, the State, and the School: Grundtvig as Enlightenment Philosopher and Social Thinker 169
16. How Grundtvig Became a Nation Builder 192
17. Comparison
18. Fichte and Grundtvig as Educators of the People 213
19. Come Together: Thoughts and Theories on Social Cohesion in the Work of Nikolai Grundtvig and Émile Durkheim 232
20. “The Gordian Knot”: Grundtvig and British Liberalism 254
21. Grundtvig and the Slavic Awakening in East Central Europe: (Con)textual Parallels, Mutual Perceptions 267
22. Crisis of Religion and Nineteenth-Century Spiritual Reform: Varieties of Nation Building in Grundtvig and Emerson 284
23. Community and Individuality: Grundtvigian and Kierkegaardian Protestantism in Denmark 300
24. Transmission
25. Grundtvig’s Idea of a People’s High School and Its Historical Influence 315
26. Grundtvigianism as Practice and Experience 331
27. The Popular Voicing of Sport: Comparative Aspects of Grundtvigian Movement Culture 346
28. Windmills, Butter, and Bacon: The Circulation of Scientific Knowledge among Grundtvigians in the Decades around 1900 362
29. An Ongoing Influence: The Political Application of Grundtvig’s Ideas in the Debate on Danish Society, 2001–09 381
30. The Economic Consequences of the Size of Nations: Denmark in Comparative Perspective 396
31. Conclusion 412
32. Contributors 427
33. Index 431