ABSTRACT
This book explores developments in the three major societies of the South Caucasus – Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia – focusing especially on religion, historical traditions, national consciousness, and political culture, and on how these factors interact. It outlines how, despite close geographical interlacement, common historical memories and inherited structures, the three countries have deep differences; and it discusses how development in all three nations has differed significantly from the countries’ declared commitments to democratic orientation and European norms and values. The book also considers how external factors and international relations continue to impact on the three countries.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|52 pages
Conceptual frames
part II|55 pages
Religion and politics
chapter 4|18 pages
Secularization and desecularization in Georgia
part III|50 pages
Religion, nationalism and education
chapter 9|14 pages
Constructing national identities through general education
part IV|52 pages
Cultural values, ideology and democracy
part V|54 pages
International context and external impacts