Nationalism can overtake faith as a worldview while inheriting its exclusivity

Evidence

Religious sentiments, she argues, are subsumed into the national and cultural discourse to the extent that for many contemporary Hindus, nationalism has overtaken the function of faith as a perspective through which to understand the world. … Indeed, Hindu nationalism founded itself on exclusive claims that combined its recent resistance to colonialism with earlier resistance to Muslim rulers in the distant medieval past. Since then, Sarkar argues, nationalism and faith have never bifurcated completely, and exclusivity became a defining feature of Hindu nationalism. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s core question: nationalism absorbing religion’s world-explaining function while retaining exclusion. Parallels the reader’s whole external-enemy/solidarity research program. — connects to: Full Christian nationalist support correlates linearly with higher religiosity — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 156; Religion and nationalism fuse when religious symbols represent the nation — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 71; Religious legitimation increases both the exclusivity and violence of ethnic nationalism. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 131 (+3 more)
• QUESTION: If nationalism ‘overtakes the function of faith,’ does it inherit faith’s resistance to falsification — a mechanism worth connecting to sacred-values compromise resistance?

Broader Connections

• Nationalism functions as a world religion marked by quarreling sects #exemplifies (0.80)