Ethnic Boundary Making Joel Lerner Moral and religious authority has

Moral and religious authority has been fragmented and weakened by the accumulated ruins of history and the depersonalized advances of civilization that have taken us from a bloody twentieth century into an immensely problematic twenty-first

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Ethnic Boundary Making Joel Lerner Moral and religious authority hasWhy does ethnicity matter in certain societies and contexts but not in others? Drawing on the boundary making perspective first championed by anthropologist Fredrick Barth, Andreas Wimmer introduces a comparative analytic of ethnic group formation. He analyzes how and why ethnic boundaries are sometimes associated with inequality and exclusion, with political salience and public debate, with enduring loyalty and thick identities, while in other cases