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When Politics are Sacralized Symposium

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When Politics are Sacralized Symposium Articles

Sacralizing State Politics: Why Does it Matter?

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian
November 14, 2022January 3, 2023

When Politics are Sacralized seeks to comparatively reveal racially based nationalist-religious claims, along with the social, cultural, and political articulations of those claims and their significance.

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When Politics are Sacralized: Religion and Nationalism in Zimbabwe

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Joram Tarusarira
October 12, 2022

The fusion between religion and nationalism is not inherent or necessary. It is an instrumentalist relationship that is used to justify and legitimate particular political policies, actions, and imaginaries.

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When Politics are Sacralized?

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Raef Zreik
October 6, 2022October 6, 2022

At its core, Zionism is not the political being sacralized, but the religious being politicized.

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Sacred States: Beyond the Secular-Religious Dialectic

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
September 28, 2022

Critical secularist discourse risks reproducing particular modern categories of the religious and the political.

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Northern Ireland’s Troubled Relationship with Religion: Structures, Practices, and Definitions

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Gladys Ganiel
September 21, 2022September 21, 2022

The value of comparative volumes such as this one lies in their ability to bring together different examples, identify commonalities and divergences, and impart lessons that can be learned about and applied across various cases.

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Introduction to Symposium on When Politics are Sacralized

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Joshua Lupo
September 21, 2022October 12, 2022

What the contributors to this symposium show is that it is possible to engage in comparative work that is attentive to history, social and political complexity, and diversity without losing track of the more abstract concepts that are necessary to compare cross-culturally.

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