Reviews for Shots in the Streets: Violence and Religion in South Africa

The average rating for Shots in the Streets: Violence and Religion in South Africa based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-11-10 00:00:00 Todd Larson Alvis restores religion to its proper face in the history of nationalisms (contra Anderson, Hobsbawm, etc.) in this study of Poznan during the Napoleonic and Prussian periods leading up to 1848. His argument is simple: Prussian Germanization policies coupled with activists' realization that the church was a potent force for the Polish nationalist engine. This led to an increased amalgamation of Catholicism with being Polish while at the same time Germanization fueled Prussian nationalism amongst the city's German Protestant community. Author is pretty convincing although he does leave out the local Jews, mostly, and the place of German Catholics in all of this. A nice step towards a more realistic historiography of nationalism which takes into account the average Joe/Josef and how intellectuals were very much aware of the power of religion and its caretakers to reach down to the masses.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-04-08 00:00:00 Frank Marzano Rich book with thick context... To rich for the average reader - but thorough!