Nationalist worldliness structurally depends on the secular concept

Evidence

Nationalism, with its vision of a universe of national societies (the state being thought of as necessary to their full articulation) in which individual humans live their worldly existence requires the concept of the secular to make sense. … The men and women of each national society make and own their history. … Mankind dominates nature and each person fashions his or her individuality in the freedom regulated by the nation-state. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 943

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to vaulted Cooper argument: both treat ‘secular modernity’ as a constructed framework, not a neutral baseline. Nationalism as needing secularism parallels how neoliberal governance needs secularized Christian moral categories. — connects to: A religious-nationalist movement can secularize while retaining religious roots — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 211; Religion and nationalism mutually constitute identity and resist clean separation — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 292; Religion and nationalism are modern categories co-created by the secular order, not ancient givens. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 306