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Articles tagged as "Religious Nationalism"

Rejecting Project Esther: Understanding Christian and White Nationalism as Racism and Antisemitism

Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council
March 13, 2025May 6, 2025

The Heritage Foundation provoked widespread outrage with the publication of their Project 2025, a policy agenda that targets immigrants and…

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Everything You Always Wanted to Know about “Balkanization” (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Branko Sekuliċ
May 29, 2024September 30, 2024

Nationalism is not an ancient trait of the European Southeast. Rather, it is a classic Western European product.

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Ramayana and Political Imagination: A Reprise

Series: The Ram Temple in Ayodhya
Ananya Vajpeyi
May 9, 2024May 9, 2024

There is a long multicultural past, a complex socio-political dynamic between diverse groups, and a deep history of many religions to be reckoned with in India.

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Secular India or Hindu Nation: A Short History

Series: The Ram Temple in Ayodhya
Ananya Vajpeyi
April 19, 2024May 9, 2024

Modi chose Varanasi as his electoral constituency, since it is the holiest city for Hindus, but he had his sights set on Ayodhya.

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Bibles as Potent Objects in the Political Arena

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Hannah M. Strømmen
December 12, 2023December 12, 2023

Bibles are particularly charged objects, both in terms of the feelings they arouse and in their capacities to act and…

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Turning Away: White Nationalism and a Paraphenomenology of Darkness

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Biko Gray
November 15, 2023January 26, 2024

A paraphenomenology of darkness allows us to see the brutality of history, the violence not simply of statues, but of the fight over statues.

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Introducing Enlivening the Nation

Series: Enlivening the Nation in Modernity: The Role of Affect in a Populist Age
Joshua S. Lupo
November 10, 2023January 27, 2024

This series addresses complex ways in which people become attached to particular understandings of the nation and the role of religion in either supporting or hindering that attachment.

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Revolutionary Dreams, Repressive Realities

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

Women stand at the forefront, driving this nation-wide revolt because there exists the deepest contradiction between their massive participation in social affairs and the patriarchal laws and denigrating regulations that seek to govern their bodies and appearances.

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When Politics are Sacralized: Religion and Nationalism in Zimbabwe

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Joram Tarusarira
October 12, 2022January 26, 2024

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

Series: When Politics are Sacralized Symposium
Gladys Ganiel
September 21, 2022January 19, 2024

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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