Steven Grosby
Biographic Data
| ID | 173206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Grosby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Grosby |
| SIGNATURE | GROSBY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Clemson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Hebraism in Sixteenth-Century England: Robert and Thomas Wakefield
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivot…
Nationality and Ethnicity in the Ancient Near East
Ascertaining whether or not nations existed in the ancient Near East is not merely for the sake of determining historically when these territorial relations of social kinship appear. 1 If the evidence, however complicated, suggests the existence of nations in the ancient Near East, a more accurate understanding of not only antiquity but also “modern times” should emerge, as the classification of the self and others on the basis of birth and resid…
Nations and Nationalism in World History
"Nations and Nationalism in World History challenges the commonly accepted understanding of nations as being exclusively modern and European in origin by drawing attention to evidence that indicates that nations are found in antiquity and the Middle Ages, and throughout the world. Locating the concept of nations at all periods of history and around the world, Steven Grosby discusses a diverse array of manifestations of nations throughout history,…
Nationality, Rational Choice and Pluralism
Once Again, Nationality and Religion
An examination of the relation between nationality and religion calls for comparative analysis. There is a variability of the relation over time and from one nation and religion to another. At times, nationality and religion have clearly converged; but there have also been times when they have diverged. Examination of this variability may lead to generalizations that can be achieved through comparison. While the generalizations achieved through a…
Time, Kinship, and the Nation
There remains both a great deal of confusion over the nature of kinship and an inappropriate resistance to understanding the nation as one form of kinship, specifically, territorial kinship. Although one finds the relatively early and occasional analysis of the nation in terms of kinship, for example, by Lloyd Fallers, anthropologists, including paradoxically Ernest Gellner, have avoided understanding nationality in this way. Despite Anthony Smit…
Nationality and religion
Although both of the categories of nationality and religion are difficult to define, it is nonetheless necessary to do so. Having done so, one can proceed with clarifying what is distinctive of each of them, and, thus, be in a position to ascertain their points of convergence and difference. Evaluation of the contribution of Anthony Smith to our understanding of the relation between nationality and religion is the point of departure for a re‐exam…
The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600–1815
The Roots of Nationalism: National Identity Formation in Early Modern Europe, 1600–1815. Lotte Jensen, ed. Heritage and Memory Studies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. 342 pp. €99. - Volume 70 Issue 3
A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography: The History of My Pursuit of a Few Ideas
Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. In this autobiography, written three years before his death in 1995, Shils reflects on the remarkable range of his life's work and activities, including founding and editing the journal "Minerva", being a central figure in the Congress of Cultural Freedom, serving as a founding member of the editorial board of "The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists", and being…
Perennialism
The perennialist approach to the study of nationalism consists of two types: continuous and recurrent. Continuous perennialism recognizes that some nations have long continuous histories that trace their origins back to the Middle Ages or, occasionally, antiquity. Recurrent perennialism views nations as appearing in every period of history and throughout the world.
Primordialism
The category “primordial” is an analytical recognition of the existential significance of nativity, namely, kinship, as one among a number of persistent orientations of self‐classification having a bearing on human action because of the preference expressed toward what one perceives as one's kin, variously understood. Thus, primordial beliefs are the objects of the relational modes of attachment formed around perceived lines of descent.
Nations Before Nationalism
At stake in the determination of whether or not nations existed before nationalism involves not only the historical periodization of nations but also understanding the category “nation.” While premodern nations reveal numerous heterogeneous, cultural cross‐currents, so, too, do modern nations; thus, the former contribute to understanding properly the category “nation,” thereby undermining the “modernist” paradigm of the study of nations.
Nation and Homeland
The homeland of the nation is a spatially extensive, bounded structure of familiarity for the propagation and sustenance of the life of those who dwell within it. The recognition of a homeland conveys a territorial relation of kinship for those who reside and especially are born within the homeland. The spatially extensive, yet bounded land is recognized to be one's own.
Shils, Edward (1910–95)
Myth and symbol: The persistence of ethnicity and religion
Max Weber, Religion, and the Disenchantment of the World
Frontiers, ancient Near East
The category “frontier” refers to the diffusely designated limits of the land of a society, thereby demarcating, with geographical imprecision, that society from its neighbor.
Ethnicity, ancient Near East
A wealth of textual evidence exists throughout the ancient Near East indicating awareness of classificatory schemas with distinctions of various kinds.
Peter Berger's Contribution to the Pluralism of Mediating Structures
Nationalism Theory Debate: The Antiquity of Nations
Commanding truths
Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations
Edward Shils'Fragment of a sociological autobiography
Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction
Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations. It explores nationality through the difficulties and conflicts that have arisen throughout history, from ancient civilizations to the present day, and discusses nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives. This VSI looks at …
Territoriality: The Transcendental, Primordial Feature of Modern Societies
This article argues that one feature of all societies is territoriality and that one element of territoriality is the transcendental, primordial attachment. Consequently, the article is critical of arguments which view territoriality, including that of modem society, as primarily a post‐Cartesian strategy of control or access. The phenomenon of the territoriality of modern societies and the this‐worldly, transcendental referents in the collective…
Debate: The verdict of history: The inexpungeable tie of primordiality ‐ a response to Eller and Coughlan
(1994). Debate: The verdict of history: The inexpungeable tie of primordiality ‐ a response to Eller and Coughlan. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 164-171
Religion and nationality in Antiquity: The worship of Yahweh and ancient Israel
There is a particularly interesting, important, and, I think, generally unacknowledged cleavage within the study of theGeist, cultural history,Geisteswissenschaften, the human sciences, sociology or whatever term you employ. This deserves our consideraion
A Fragment of a Sociological Autobiography: The History of My Pursuit of a Few Ideas
Edward Shils was one of the giants of sociological theory in the period after World War II. In this autobiography, written three years before his death in 1995, Shils reflects on the remarkable range of his life's work and activities, including founding and editing the journal "Minerva", being a central figure in the Congress of Cultural Freedom, serving as a founding member of the editorial board of "The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists", and being…
The Chosen People of Ancient Israel and the Occident: Why does Nationality Exist and Survive
The primary focus of this article differs from the author's earlier argument about why it may be legitimate‐to apply the category of nationality to ancient Israel. The concern here is three‐fold: an examination of the conceptions of Israel as the chosen people (both conditional and unconditional) in the Old Testament; the possible bearing of those conceptions on the historical imagination of the Occident; and what those conceptions might tell us …
Nationalism Theory Debate: The Antiquity of Nations
Pluralism in the Thought of Oakeshott, Shils and Weber
Michael Oakeshott recognized the existence of categorially distinct modes of being related that, while subsisting in conjunction with one another, could not be reduced to any particular one. This recognition was shared by Edward Shils, who wrote of the incommensurate plurality of orientations of the human mind; and by Max Weber when he wrote of both the types of social action and the various directions of the religious rejections of the world. Wh…
Time, Kinship, and the Nation
There remains both a great deal of confusion over the nature of kinship and an inappropriate resistance to understanding the nation as one form of kinship, specifically, territorial kinship. Although one finds the relatively early and occasional analysis of the nation in terms of kinship, for example, by Lloyd Fallers, anthropologists, including paradoxically Ernest Gellner, have avoided understanding nationality in this way. Despite Anthony Smit…
Nationality and religion
Although both of the categories of nationality and religion are difficult to define, it is nonetheless necessary to do so. Having done so, one can proceed with clarifying what is distinctive of each of them, and, thus, be in a position to ascertain their points of convergence and difference. Evaluation of the contribution of Anthony Smith to our understanding of the relation between nationality and religion is the point of departure for a re‐exam…
Borders, Territory and Nationality in the Ancient Near East and Armenia
Examination of evidence from the ancient Near East spanning a period of more than a thousand years indicates the existence of conceptions of relatively precise boundaries, territories, and perhaps also nations. Of course, the bounded territorial relation constitutive of certain ancient collectivities was not based, in part, on a conception of citizenship derived from birth in the land as in many instances of the modern national state. Nonetheless…
Max Weber, Religion, and the Disenchantment of the World
Sociological Implications of the Distinction Between "Locality" and Extended "Territory" with Particular Reference to the Old Testament
Myth and symbol: The persistence of ethnicity and religion
Peter Berger's Contribution to the Pluralism of Mediating Structures
Religion, ethnicity and nationalism: The uncertain perennialism of Adrian Hastings
The Category of the Primordial in the Study of Early Christianity and Second-Century Judaism
Religion and nationality in Antiquity: The worship of Yahweh and ancient Israel
There is a particularly interesting, important, and, I think, generally unacknowledged cleavage within the study of theGeist, cultural history,Geisteswissenschaften, the human sciences, sociology or whatever term you employ. This deserves our consideraion
The university of the twenty-first century: Report on the discussions
Kinship, Territory, and the Nation in the Historiography of Ancient Israel
Article Kinship, Territory, and the Nation in the Historiography of Ancient Israel was published on January 1, 1993 in the journal Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (volume 105, issue 1).
Sociological Implications of the Distinction Between "Locality" and Extended "Territory" with Particular Reference to the Old Testament
Debate: The verdict of history: The inexpungeable tie of primordiality ‐ a response to Eller and Coughlan
(1994). Debate: The verdict of history: The inexpungeable tie of primordiality ‐ a response to Eller and Coughlan. Ethnic and Racial Studies: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 164-171
Territoriality: The Transcendental, Primordial Feature of Modern Societies
This article argues that one feature of all societies is territoriality and that one element of territoriality is the transcendental, primordial attachment. Consequently, the article is critical of arguments which view territoriality, including that of modem society, as primarily a post‐Cartesian strategy of control or access. The phenomenon of the territoriality of modern societies and the this‐worldly, transcendental referents in the collective…
Introduction: The tasks of historical sociology
Antinomies of individuality and nationality
Edward Shils
The classics revisited
Elie Kedourie, NATIONALISM, 4th expanded edn., Oxford: Blackwell, 1993, 154pp., £9.99 (paper
The Category of the Primordial in the Study of Early Christianity and Second-Century Judaism
Borders, Territory and Nationality in the Ancient Near East and Armenia
Examination of evidence from the ancient Near East spanning a period of more than a thousand years indicates the existence of conceptions of relatively precise boundaries, territories, and perhaps also nations. Of course, the bounded territorial relation constitutive of certain ancient collectivities was not based, in part, on a conception of citizenship derived from birth in the land as in many instances of the modern national state. Nonetheless…
The Chosen People of Ancient Israel and the Occident: Why does Nationality Exist and Survive
The primary focus of this article differs from the author's earlier argument about why it may be legitimate‐to apply the category of nationality to ancient Israel. The concern here is three‐fold: an examination of the conceptions of Israel as the chosen people (both conditional and unconditional) in the Old Testament; the possible bearing of those conceptions on the historical imagination of the Occident; and what those conceptions might tell us …
Cultural History, Nationalism and the Dignity of the Individual: The Work of George L. Mosse
The recently deceased George Mosse was one of the leading cultural and intellectual historians of modern Germany and Europe. His important contributions to our understanding of modern culture were his historical analyses of racism, fascism, and nationalism as cultural phenomena of our times. This article concentrates on Mosse's analysis of nationalism
Theory of Objective Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture
Journal Article Theory of Objective Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture. By Hans Freyer. Translated and with an Introduction by Steven Grosby. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1998, 166 pp. $36.95 Get access John H. Simpson John H. Simpson University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 61, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 240–241, https://doi.org/10.2307/3…
Sociology and its intellectual past
Pluralism in the Thought of Oakeshott, Shils and Weber
Michael Oakeshott recognized the existence of categorially distinct modes of being related that, while subsisting in conjunction with one another, could not be reduced to any particular one. This recognition was shared by Edward Shils, who wrote of the incommensurate plurality of orientations of the human mind; and by Max Weber when he wrote of both the types of social action and the various directions of the religious rejections of the world. Wh…
Religion, ethnicity and nationalism: The uncertain perennialism of Adrian Hastings
Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction
Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction examines the political and moral challenges that face the vast majority of human beings who consider themselves to be members of various nations. It explores nationality through the difficulties and conflicts that have arisen throughout history, from ancient civilizations to the present day, and discusses nations and nationalism from social, philosophical, and anthropological perspectives. This VSI looks at …
The fate of nationality
Nationalism and Ethnosymbolism: History, Culture and Ethnicity in the Formation of Nations
Edward Shils'Fragment of a sociological autobiography
Nationalism Theory Debate: The Antiquity of Nations
Commanding truths
Peter Berger's Contribution to the Pluralism of Mediating Structures
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