Religious Nationalism

Atalia Omer, PhD, is assistant professor of religion, conflict, and peace studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, IN. She earned her doctorate from the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University.Jason A. Springs is assistant professor of religion, ethics, and peace studies at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, IN, where he also holds an appointment as faculty fellow in the Center for the Study of Religion and Society.

Overall, this work is recommended for most reference collections, particularly for its case studies and supplemental references.

• Preface1 What Is "Religious" about "Religious Nationalism"?Defining NationalismMisconceptions about Religious NationalismChallenging the Religion versus Secularism ModelJuergensmeyer: Supporting the Religious versus Secular ModelHibbard: Challenging the Religious versus Secular DivideReligious Aspects of Religious Nationalism?Case Study: Northern Ireland and the TroublesHoly Places and Holy Times in Religious NationalismCase Study: Northern Ireland and the TroublesCase Study: Israel and ZionismRitual Practices in Religious NationalismCase Study: Marching Season (Northern Ireland)Case Study: Ariel Sharon at the Dome of the Rock (Israel/Palestine)Ethnoreligious NationalismCase Study: Jewish Elements of ZionismCase Study: Serbian Nationalism in YugoslaviaCase Study: Kosovo and the "Serbian Jerusalem,"Religion and the Emergence of Premodern NationalismsCase Study: The Spanish InquisitionCase Study: FranceChallenging the Modern Secular Nationalism ModelPolitical Elites and the Shaping of IdentityCase Study: EgyptLanguage, Literature, Texts, and Claims of AuthenticityCase Study: Hindutva and IndiaCase Study: Sri LankaNationalism: A Replacement for Religion?References2 Nationalism: A Religion?IntroductionConstructing and Conceiving NationalismNations as Imagined CommunitiesCivil Religion as a Form of NationalismMarkers of Civil Religion: Rituals, Myths, and SymbolsSelf-Conception of Civil Religion: Origins, Identity, and ValuesThe Sacred Canopy: Unifying Society around Civil ReligionCivil Religion: Debunking the Myth of Religion as AntimodernA False Dichotomy: Ethnic Nationalism versus Civic NationalismDiscourse Analysis of OrientalismReligion and Modernity—Compatible, Not ContradictoryThe Challenge of Reductionism for Understanding NationalismEssentialist ApproachesMaterialist ApproachesThe Myth of Religious ViolenceA Society Worshipping Itself?Modernist Misconceptions of Religious NationalismTypes and FormsAssumptions and MisconceptionsReligion as a Force for ChangeThe Protestant EthicThe Protestant Reformation and the Sovereign Nation-StateReligion in the Public SphereExposing the Discourses of SecularismLaicism DiscourseJudeo-Christian DiscourseSecular-Orientalist DiscourseConclusionReferences3 Reimagining Religion and Nation: The Cases of Israel and the United StatesIntroductionNot a Sleeping Beauty: Anti-Semitism and the Negation of ExileColonialismOrientalismArab Jews and Mizrahim: Challenges to Monolithic National IdentityShasThe "Gush,"A "New Israel": Puritan and Enlightenment Roots of Religious Nationalism in the United StatesSeparation of Church and StateThe Nation, the Land, and Manifest Destiny"God's Almost Chosen People": Civil Religion, Nationalism, and the Civil WarThe Tradition of American JeremiadThe Cold War: A Judeo-Christian Nation versus a Godless SocietyThe Ignoble Paradox of American Democracy: Race, Nation, and ReligionReligious Nationalism and the Emergence of the Religious Right"One Nation under Vishnu": Pledging Allegiance to God and CountryReligious Diversity and National Identity in the Post-9/11 WorldIslamophobia and the Ground Zero Mosque in American National ImaginationConclusionReferences4 ChronologiesReligious Nationalism and Conflict ZonesSri LankaNorthern IrelandIsrael/PalestineThe Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt5 Biographical SketchesSri LankaIsrael/PalestineIsraelNorthern IrelandNationalism in Islamic Contexts and Debates6 Data and DocumentsNationalism as Civil Religion: The Case of the United StatesAn American Civil Religion: Central Motifs and Moments of ContestationOfficial SpeechesReligion and the Authorization of Force and EmpireContesting the Meanings of American National IdentityReligion and Exclusionary Interpretations of American National IdentityReligious Nationalism: Examples from around the WorldHindu Nationalism (India)Sinhala Buddhism (Sri Lanka)Israel: Religious Zionism7 Directory of Organizations8 Print ResourcesReligion and Modern NationalismThe Emergence of the "Nation,"Public Religion, Conflict, and Violence: A Global PerspectiveThe Global "Resurgence" of ReligionOther Selected Books on Religion, Society, and the Discourses of Secularism and OrientalismReligion and Ethnonational Conflict (Select Cases)IndiaIsrael/PalestineSri LankaNorthern IrelandReligion, Democracy, and the Modern Nation-StateUnited StatesIslamic ContextsReligion and PeacebuildingGlossaryIndexAbout the Authors