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“The Arabic Qur'an and authoritative Christian translations of the Bible into a limited number of languages contributed profoundly to the universalisation of a single ethnic religious—linguistic community in the Muslim case and to the distinction between major written languages and dialectic vernaculars in the Christian case. While the Islamic socio-political impact was thus in principle almost entirely anti-ethnic and anti-national, the Christian impact was more complex. Its willingness to translate brought with it, undoubtedly, a reduction in the number of ethnicities and vernaculars, but then a confirmation of the individual identity of those that remained: Christianity in fact helped turn ethnicities into nations.”

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Book:The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism

Source: The Construction of Nationhood: Ethnicity, Religion and Nationalism

“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign.”

Poetry Politics Race Identity Ignorance Envy Isolation Objectification Mixed Race Nationhood

Author:Jasmine Ann Cooray

“Nations are first written in ink before they are defended in blood.”

Poetry Freedom History Identity Resistance Writers African Poetry Nationhood

Book:The Ink and Epoch That Build Nations!: Poems that Till the Mind, Sow Conscience, and Harvest a Nation

Source: The Ink and Epoch That Build Nations!: Poems that Till the Mind, Sow Conscience, and Harvest a Nation

“If you look at it closely, every individual is a separate entity, state and culture. The macro state is a federation of citizens who accept to live under the same law.”

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Book:Book of Wisdom

Source: Book of Wisdom

“We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundaries of God's kingdom transcend those of Caesar, and that the main political task of the church is the formation of people who see clearly the cost of discipleship and are willing to pay the price.”

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Book:Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

Source: Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony