How might national loyalty, identity and cohesion be understood in a religiously plural and culturally differentiated 'nation'? The conference aims to achieve greater clarity over whether or not the revivification of Patriotism is warranted, and in what ways a revitalised Patriotism may differ from past Patriotisms.
The struggles of a number of states with varying strands of multiculturalism, the resurgence of discourses over the strange notion of "national values" and the attempts to recover cohesion in culturally and ethnically diverse polities would make this conference timely and highly pertinent.
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