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Prophetic Activism: Progressive Religious Justice Movements in Contemporary America

groups when normative ‘values’ begin to unravel as a result of sustained scrutiny or powerful counter-arguments’’ (p. 91), Skey observes. If the earlier chapters focus on how national boundaries are articulated in banal, common-sense ways, the latter chapters delve into more dramatic kinds of expression. In Chapter Four, Skey brings in the concept of ‘‘ecstatic nationalism.’’ Ecstatic nationalism, a concept he has explored in his earlier work, refers to coordinated public events consciously constructed for purposes of nationally shared experience and mutual recognition. These intense moments of national togetherness, from royal weddings to football world cups, parallel the banal nationalism that dominates the everyday and allow citizens to further deepen and reinforce their sense of what it means to be a national citizen. Chapter Five devotes attention to popular understandings of cosmopolitanism, building on arguments by Morley, Urry, and Beck to consider how contemporary mobility, encased in patterns of global consumption and travel, helps his English actors to define what it means to come ‘‘home.’’ With its lucid, detailed passages, theoretical scope, and well supported insights, National Belonging and Everyday Life is a sophisticated account of a relevant and necessary theme in contemporary life. Communication scholars and others who focus on social interaction, group identities, and the politics of national belonging will all find cause to engage with this book.