The Relationship Between The Formation Of Nation-state And The Reformation

The formation of the nation-state has many factors。but the role of Religion iseasily overlooked。but actually the opposite, that religion is a factor can not beignored. the Catholic Church plays an important role in the European nation-state, butalso the dominant direction of a spiritual realm. As time going, the Church becomethe resistance in the development of nation-state.Elngland is one of the earlier nation-state in the world. Religion has afar-reaching impact on the development of the nation-state of the United Kingdom.And the Reformation help the British nation-state to be established. Its ideologicalgained independence plays a decisive role.the Reformation is not only to get rid ofthe medieval theology bound towards Modern England, and also to promote theBritish internal national political system. At the same time, the Reformation gavebirth to a unique path of development of the British nation-state.Reformation is the practice of the movement of the national consciousness. thenation-state of United Kingdom to be the really establishment through religiousreform. British powerful lead to extreme expansion of national self-confidence andpsychological establishment with which the United Kingdom to expand overseasforces. Oversea’s colonial is not just for the pursuit of wealth also is the developmentof the English national consciousness.This thesis starts to analysis the relationship in National consciousness、theReformation and Nation-state. The Rising national consciousness promote theReformation, the Reformation this social revolution and the United Kingdomnation-state final has been established.This paper is divided into five ChaptersChapter I introduces the definitions of ethnic.national consciousness argumentationEnglish Nation rationality of the existence and characteristics.Chapter Ⅱ analyzes the relationship of the national consciousness and the causesof the English Reformation.emphasizing the national consciousness through economicand political culture affect the development of the nation-state. Chapter Ⅲ starting with the help of the representative legal documents of theReformation to explain the the whole Reformation and explaining the social impact ofthe Reformation.Chapter Ⅳ Elaborating the United Kingdom as a national communitysocio-economic situation after the Reformation. By these events proofing theReformation is a landmark event in the English nation-state building process.Chapter Ⅴ English nation-state ’s powerful enhanced self-esteem and cohesion ofthe British people, but this excessive expansion of self-esteem the UK later widelycolonial psychological basis.