Many Are Chosen [antikvár]

IntroductionWilliam R. Hutchison*In late June 1991, the Times of London carried an article headed by an exasperated query: "Why Do Somé Nations Still See Them-selves as the Chosen People?" The article's author, Conor Cruise O'Brien, had just returned to Ireland after attending the historical con-ference for which these essays were first written. His question, üke Michael Ignatieff s reflections on his experience of a cathedral service in Ukraine, quoted in the epigraph to this volume, identified contem-porary concerns that undoubtedly had helped to prompt our inquiry.1*William R. Hutchison is Charles Warren Professor of the History of Re-ligion in America at Harvard Divinity School.'Conor Cruise O'Brien, "Why Do Somé Nations Still See Themselves as the Chosen People?" Times (London) 25 June 1991, 14. Michael Ignatieff, Blood and Belonging: Journeys into the New Nationalism (New York: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1994) 127.