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A people that adheres to a sacred life-style, scripture and liturgy which it believes has been ordained for it by the deity comes to see itself as a ‘holy people’ and its habitat as sanctified through the repeated performance of sacred acts to fulfil the mission with which it was entrusted. Indeed, the belief may arise that a holy people is rewarded for its faithful observance by the promise and possession of a holy land, a land conferred by the deity on a people that fulfils a sacred mission entrusted to it by the deity.

SMITH In the second edition of his Imagined Communities, Benedict Anderson devotes a chapter to the ways in which colonial states defined the territories and borders of the new nations that arose in southeast Asia. He argues that it was the cartographers, census-takers and museologists of the colonial regimes who defined the territories and populations of the future new states. Through the operations of the unitary colonial education system and the administrative pilgrimages which they fed, a territorial patriotism was evoked that largely superseded the older ethnic and regional attachments of the subordinated populations.

Israeli Relations at the Crossroads edited by Gabriel Sheffer From Rabin to Netanyahu: Israel's Troubled Agenda edited by Efraim Karsh Israel at the Polls 1996 edited by Daniel J. R. Kumaraswamy Peacemaking in Israel after Rabin edited by Sasson Sofer Israel: The First Hundred Years Volume I Israel's Transition from Community to State Editor Efraim Karsh First published 2000 by Frank Cass & Co. Ltd Published 2013 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright © 2000 Frank Cass & Co.