Building the Nation: N.F.S. Grundtvig and Danish National Identity 9780773596313

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

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Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: THEORETICAL GROUNDWORK
1 Nation Building and State Building
2 Icons of Nationalism
3 Between Tradition and Modernity: Grundtvig and Cultural Nationalism
PART TWO: ENABLING CONDITIONS
4 Religious Revivalism in Sweden and Denmark
5 The Nation as Event: The Dissolution of the Oldenburg Monarchy and Grundtvig’s Nationalism
6 Why Denmark Did Not Become Switzerland
PART THREE: GRUNDTVIG AND THE PEOPLE
7 “Hand of King and Voice of People”: Grundtvig on Democracy and the Responsibility of the Self
8 On the Church, the State, and the School: Grundtvig as Enlightenment Philosopher and Social Thinker
9 How Grundtvig Became a Nation Builder
PART FOUR: COMPARISON
10 Fichte and Grundtvig as Educators of the People
11 Come Together: Thoughts and Theories on Social Cohesion in the Work of Nikolai Grundtvig and Émile Durkheim
12 “The Gordian Knot”: Grundtvig and British Liberalism
13 Grundtvig and the Slavic Awakening in East Central Europe: (Con)textual Parallels, Mutual Perceptions
14 Crisis of Religion and Nineteenth-Century Spiritual Reform: Varieties of Nation Building in Grundtvig and Emerson
15 Community and Individuality: Grundtvigian and Kierkegaardian Protestantism in Denmark
PART FIVE: TRANSMISSION
16 Grundtvig’s Idea of a People’s High School and Its Historical Influence
17 Grundtvigianism as Practice and Experience
18 The Popular Voicing of Sport: Comparative Aspects of Grundtvigian Movement Culture
19 Windmills, Butter, and Bacon: The Circulation of Scientific Knowledge among Grundtvigians in the Decades around 1900
20 An Ongoing Influence: The Political Application of Grundtvig’s Ideas in the Debate on Danish Society, 2001–09
21 The Economic Consequences of the Size of Nations: Denmark in Comparative Perspective
Conclusion
Contributors
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