Part 1: ​​Introduction

Chapter 1: Introduction: Imagining Alternatives to Globalization of the Nation Form

Irfan Ahmad and Jie Kang

Chapter 2: The Oeuvre of Peter van der Veer

Irfan Ahmad

Part 2: ​​INDIA

Chapter 3: On the 'Impossibility' of Atheism in Secular India

Stefan Binder

Chapter 4: Hindu Nationalism and North Indian Music in the Global Age

Bob van der Linden

Chapter 5: Muslim Bare Life in Contemporary India

Irfan Ahmad and Peter van der Veer

Part 3: ​​China

Chapter 6: Rising, Becoming, Overcoding: On Chinese Nationalism in The Wandering Earth

Jeroen de Kloet

Chapter 7: Nationalism and Chinese Protestant Christianity: From Anti-Imperialism to Islamophobia

Jie Kang

Chapter 8: Digital Imaginaries and the Chinese Nation State

Samuel Lengen

Chapter 9: Moral Labour, the Nation and the State in Contemporary China

Xiao He

Part 4: ​​South Africa and the Middle East

Chapter 10: Race, Animal Bodies and Religion: Sacrifice, Sensory Politics and Public Space in South Africa

Shaheed Tayob

Chapter 11: The Rivalry Between Secular and Religious Nationalisms: On the Split in Iranian National Identity

Mahmoud Alinejad

Part 5: ​​Asia In/And Europe

Chapter 12: Coming of Age in the Secular Republic of Fiction

Oskar Verkaaik

Chapter 13: Socialization of Language and Morality at Chinese Christian Church of Berlin

Jingyang Yu

Afterword:  Reflections on Nationalism

Peter van der Veer