Distinguishes ‘full fusion’ nationalisms from mere religiously-inflected ones by whether religion defines the nationalism

Evidence

Yet there are cases of nationalism or national movements that represent or seek to create a full fusion of nationalism and religion, such as Zionism, the Hindutva, and Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism. The fact that all nationalisms have some sort of underlying religious components that were integrated into them during different historical processes should not blind us to the variance in the extent to which these components influence politics in each case, or to the fundamentally different types of nationalism in which religion or religious claims are not simply residues of a historical process, but are defining features of nationalism itself. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 102

Categorization

• DEFINE: Key concept: full-fusion nationalisms (Zionism, Hindutva, Sinhala) are a distinct subtype where religion isn’t residue but defining — the analytic edge the reader needs to test against other polities.
• XREF: Useful for testing whether the Ottoman millet or Mughal systems ever produced full-fusion nationalism, or only the modern nation-state form does. — connects to: Religion fuses with nationalism only when it legitimizes actual state governance — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 75; Nationalism’s borrowings from religion do not make religion its source — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 946; Religion and nationalism are fused throughout secular Zionism, not only in religious nationalism. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 523 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Nationalism’s borrowings from religion do not make religion its source #complicates (0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 946