Fusing religion with nationalism amplifies collective violence and self-sacrifice.

Evidence

As Marvin and Ingle (1996, 1999) put it, both religion and nationalism have the potential to organize “killing energy” and promote blood sacrifice. A fusion of the two is thus likely to generate greater violence and willingness on behalf of individuals to sacrifice themselves in the name of the collective. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 138

Categorization

• XREF: Directly advances the reader’s research on whether sacralized political conflict becomes resistant to compromise; connects to sacred-values mechanism literature and to Dubner/Appleby weak-versus-thick religion framing. — connects to: Evangelical churches fuse patriotic and military ritual with Christian worship to sacralize the nation — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 36; Christian nationalism today is premillennial and frames war as God-sanctioned conquest. — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 82; Religious legitimation increases both the exclusivity and violence of ethnic nationalism. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 131 (+12 more)
• QUESTION: Marvin & Ingle’s ‘killing energy’ framing deserves follow-up on how fusion, rather than either element alone, raises the violence ceiling.

Broader Connections

• Sacralized nationalism licenses violence even within a pacifist religion #corroborates (0.92) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 179
• Nationalism and religious zeal can merge into a shared fanaticism. #corroborates (0.90) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 431
• Radical religious nationalism arises when sovereignty is read in redemptive terms #expands (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 345
• Extreme nationalism sacralizes the nation and justifies enslaving others #corroborates (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2440
• Christian nationalism fuses ethnic, racial, and political hierarchy with religious identity #corroborates (0.78) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 66
• Religion and nationalism mutually constitute identity and resist clean separation #expands (0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 292
• Sinhalese nationalist violence against Christians is opportunistic rather than primordial #qualifies (0.75) — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist Ideology, 245
• Religion and nationalism fuse when religious symbols represent the nation #expands (0.72) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 71
• Tombs of unknown soldiers show nationalism’s affinity with religious imagining #exemplifies (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 54
• Nationalism functions as a world religion marked by quarreling sects #expands (0.70)
• Religion fuses with nationalism only when it legitimizes actual state governance #qualifies (0.70) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 75