Nationalisms vary in how fully religion defines them rather than merely residue

Evidence

In making the claim that some forms of the interaction between religion and nationalism lead to sacralization of politics, we are aware of and agree with the body of research that criticizes the total separation between religion and nationalism and that underscores nationalism’s underlying religious components (Asad 1993, 2003; Friedland and Moss 2016; Norris and Inglehart 2010). … 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: Introduces the key analytic distinction between nationalisms with religious residue versus religious fusion — the volume’s central classificatory move.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s sacred-values mechanism research: fusion-type nationalisms (Zionism, Hindutva, Sinhalese Buddhism) are the prime candidate for compromise-resistant sacralization. — connects to: Christian nationalism differs from the Christian nation narrative in its boundary-preserving intent — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 95; 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; Secularist bias hid that nationalism and religion fused while remaining distinct — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 70 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Distinguishes ‘full fusion’ nationalisms from mere religiously-inflected ones by whether religion defines the nationalism #corroborates (0.90) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 102
• Nationalism’s borrowings from religion do not make religion its source #qualifies (0.75) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 946