Jewishness was transposed from a nation’s religion into a national religion

Evidence

Religionization of the military is a process in which there is a strengthening of religious elements in the military’s culture, symbols, ethics, and conduct, resulting in an expanding religious influence (see, e.g., Drory 2015; Gal and Libel 2012; Levy 2016; Libel and Gal 2015). This process has occurred in tandem with the broader religionization of Israeli politics through the religionization of nationalism, or, as sociologist Uri Ram (2008, 69) puts it, Jewishness “has been transposed entirely from a ‘religion of a nation’ to a ‘national religion.’” I accept both arguments here as a point of departure. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 836

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘religionization of the military’ and provides the key concept of shifting from religion-of-a-nation to national-religion.
• XREF: This religion-of-a-nation to national-religion transposition parallels how the reader’s sacralization research frames manufactured vs. primordial identity — the conversion converts a pre-existing belief system into a cohesive nationalist container. — connects to: The religious core is inseparable from Zionism but separable from Israeli Jewish nationalism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 564; Zionism countered the earlier invention of Judaism as a religion — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 748; Assimilation converted Judaism from a nationality or religion into a psychological quality (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Assimilation converted Judaism from a nationality or religion into a psychological quality #responds-to (0.85)
• Jewish intellectual assimilation nationalized the Jews and made social discrimination newly painful #expands (0.85)
• Russian Orthodoxy fused national and religious identity as Judaism had done #exemplifies (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2439
• Jewish intellectual assimilation shifted Jews from inter-European traders to national citizens seeking social admittance #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 183
• Assimilation converted Jewish origin from political fact into a psychological trait #corroborates (0.80)
• Jews entered European history as a non-national inter-European element #responds-to (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 110
• Secular Jewish conceit separated them from nations more than religious law did #qualifies (0.72)