- Steven Grosby
Steven Grosby is
Professor ofReligion atClemson University . He received hisPhD from the Committee on Social Thought of theUniversity of Chicago .His areas of research include the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, the relation between religion and nationality, and Social and Political Philosophy.
His articles have appeared in journals such as "Zeitschrift fur die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft", History of Religions, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Archives Europeennes de Sociologie, and Nations and Nationalism.
“Grosby asserts that the human tendency to form attachments to the image of the native land. . . suggests something fundamental about human conduct.” [ [http://www.nationnews.com/story/293993159460231.php Nation News] ]
In his book "Biblical Ideas of Nationality: Ancient and Modern", Grosby argues that the ideas of modern nationhood were already present in the Ancient Near East in places like Armenia, Edom, Egypt, and especially Biblical Israel, which later became the major model for European nation formation.
According to
Anthony D. Smith Grosby argues that “from roughly the late seventh century BCE… Israel appears as a fully fledged nation.” [ The Nation in History: Historiographical Debates About Ethnicity and Nationalism, by Anthony D. Smith ( 2000), p. 45 ]elected publications
* "Biblical Ideas of Nationality: Ancient and Modern" (2002)
* Hans Freyer, "Theory of Objective Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture." "Series in Continental Thought No. 25" (translation) (1998)
* Editor of two volumes of selected writings of Edward Shils, "The Virtue of Civility" (1997) and "The Calling of Education" (1997)
* "Nationality and Nationalism--a four volume Reader", co-editor (2004)
* "Nationalism: A Very Short Introduction" Oxford University PressAwards and Honors
Templeton Foundation Award [ [http://www.clemson.edu/clemsonworld/spring99/tresr.htm Clemson University] ] [ [http://virtual.clemson.edu/caah/cedp/Mirare/spring98/milestones.html Clemson University] ]
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