Nationalist myths coalesced into an ideology defining Slavs as innately Christian

Evidence

In the nineteenth century, the three myths-conversion to Islam based only upon cowardice and greed, stable ethnoreligious groups down through the centuries, and complete depravity of Ottoman rule-became the foundation for a new religious ideology, Christoslavism, the belief that Slavs are Christian by nature and that any conversion from Christianity is a betrayal of the Slavic race. — Michael A. Sells, The Bridge Betrayed, 132

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the coinage ‘Christoslavism’ with a precise definition, likely the book’s central analytic concept.
• SEED: Christoslavism as an analytic concept could seed a piece on how ‘ethnicity equals religion’ ideologies manufacture justification for cleansing.
• XREF: connects to: Christian nationalists collaborate with Russia because they reject America’s pluralist founding ideal — Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the…, 1064; Slavic Muslims were redefined as Turkish invaders through religious nationalism — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 124

Related

• Christoslavism defined Slavic Muslims as traitors outside the nation (similarity 0.86)
• Both Serb and Croat nationalists shared the view that Slavic Muslims converted from cowardice (similarity 0.82)
• Slavic Muslims were redefined as Turkish invaders through religious nationalism (similarity 0.82)
• Serbian nationalist ideology treats religious conversion as a change of race (similarity 0.82)
• Kosovo mythology transforms religious identity into a racialist ideology (similarity 0.82)
• Serb nationalist ideology fuses religious identity with race-traitor charges against Muslims (similarity 0.81)
• Christian nationalists collaborate with Russia because they reject America’s pluralist founding ideal (similarity 0.81)
• A professional biologist converted religious conversion into a genetic defect theory (similarity 0.78)