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BEING OF NATION

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is twofold: to answer the questions 1) is the nation a being,can it have intentions, will, and can it act? and 2) what is the origin of ethnic diversityin humanity according to biblical testimony? A positive answer to the first question wasgiven by the “groupism social ontology”, as Rogers Brubaker called it, according towhich nations are real entities, substantive and permanent. Namely, it is often referredto “Serbs”, “Russians”, “Germans”, etc. as clearly delimited, real groups that can act,and in this way to them is attributed the character of a collective one that has its goalsand its own mentality. This paper seeks to answer the question to what extent such atheory fits with the basic ontological principles and with the results of contemporarysociological research on the emergence of nations. Since this analysis reveals theinability of sociological research to fully shed light on the origins of the “ethnic originsof nations”, the author also considers the biblical perspective on the emergence of ethnicpluralism. Since conflicts of national interest throughout history, especially in the 19thand 20th centuries, have been

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