By Susan Paul Pattie

A portrait about the relation between religion and nationalism in concrete terms, this book also investigates the increasingly common experience of diaspora while focusing on Armenians who settled in Cyprus and London during the course of this century.

The author reveals how the mechanisms for creating and maintaining a sense of community and national identiy have eveolved, as early survivors give way to second- and third-generation Armenians who are increasingly at home in their host countries.

After five years of research, Pattie -- a research associate at the University College London and lecturer in anthropology at Richmond College, the American Intenrational University in London -- shows how the Armenian language and Armenian Church, which once acted as repositories of idenity, now function more as symbols within a larger faith in Armenian history as a unifying force for Armenians worldwide.

282 pages, hard cover

ISBN# 1560986298