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Religion and Nationalism; Sociology

                                                                     Nationalism “consciousness of belonging to a nation (existent or in the realm of aspiration) or nationality, and the desire, as manifest in sentiment and activity, to secure or maintain its welfare, prosperity, and integrity, and to maximize its political autonomy” - James Coleman (1986: 425) Nation - “a large group of people who feel that they form a single and exclusive community destined to be an independent state”. It is followed by the defined characters as given below   - largeness in scale - a belief that the nation constitutes a terminal community - the assumption of the national destiny of independent   - statehood in the modern world  Smith (1991 ), in his National Identity,  identified five major ...