Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Nationalism is not an ancient trait of the European Southeast. Rather, it is a classic Western European product.
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Bibles are particularly charged objects, both in terms of the feelings they arouse and in their capacities to act and…
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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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Only when the Balkans are considered as succumbing to neither Northern nor Southern theoretical or praxis-oriented frameworks, can we ensure that all ways of being and living locally are truly listened to.
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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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The National Question was about ethnic difference and how Europe should deal with it. The Jewish Question was about the alien within—so deep within as to be internal to Europe’s idea of itself.
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Despite its name, the Jewish Question was not a Jewish question as such; it was a European question, whose subject was the Jews.
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The confluence of sacred times and spaces (national and religious) is explosive, and those pulling triggers and making decisions targeting religious celebrations may well be lighting the fuse.
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Profound expressions of interfaith solidarity must disrupt the deep legacy of “faith” as an instrument of empire.
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What we can infer from this panel is that the political, racial, and religious markers which compose borders are also etched and negotiated on the bodies of the marginalized others as ‘border-crossers.’
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