Religious justification moves ethnic-control mores beyond politics into purity discourse.

Evidence

Other social mores emerge, such as a sense of demographic threat (also shared by political class), stigmatizing disapproval of mixed marriages, control of reproductive capacity, and anxieties about sexual interaction with members of excluded groups – particularly by women in the superior group – articulated and behaviorally expressed depending on the particular context. While such mores are common in other ethnic regimes, they become particularly venomous when they are justified on religious bases and supported by religious concerns. This moves the public discourse about them away from the social and political sphere to the considerations of purity and contamination as defined by the religious (see Chapters 7 and 8). — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 141

Categorization

• XREF: Speaks directly to the reader’s ‘moralizing/correcting a threat-hardened belief’ thread: sacralized framing relocates debate to a register immune to ordinary political compromise. — connects to: Racializing religion serves the political purpose of excluding targeted minorities; The JHU normalized Buddhist supremacist ideology while wrapping it in civilizational and righteous-state language. — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 172
• SEED: Possible angle: why religiously underwriting demographic anxieties immunizes them against rational-corrective intervention in a way secular ethnic anxiety is not.

Broader Connections

• Racializing religion serves the political purpose of excluding targeted minorities #complicates (0.72)