Religious legitimation increases both the exclusivity and violence of ethnic nationalism.

Evidence

Once land is considered through the lens of religiously based claims, many land-related policies, such as land ownership, land use, zoning, planning, and spatial policies that aim at evicting the “foreigners” or “invaders,” come under the influence of sacralized hierarchies of power. … When religious claims are integrated into the nationalism of the dominant group in a multiethnic state, it opens the door for religiously based legitimation for ethnic nationalism and other exclusionary ideologies and forms of governance. The political governance becomes the expression of discriminatory ideologies. Ethnic and religious nationalism, for example, can play the destructive role of promoting an ethnically exclusive state, and the religious claims can play a double purpose – not only to increase the extent of exclusivity, but also to provide legitimation for such exclusion (usually translated into political domination) and means of violence. These means can take extreme forms, precisely because of the religious legitimation. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 131

Categorization

• QUESTION: Central to the sacred-values hypothesis: does religious framing make violence and exclusion more extreme than purely ethnic framing would? This suggests testable comparison.
• SEED: Article angle: ‘the double purpose of sacralization’ — how religious framing simultaneously expands exclusion’s extent and licenses its most extreme violence.
• XREF: connects to: Sacralized nationalism licenses violence even within a pacifist religion — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 179; Fusing religion with nationalism amplifies collective violence and self-sacrifice. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 138; Nationalism can overtake faith as a worldview while inheriting its exclusivity — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 170 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fusing religion with nationalism amplifies collective violence and self-sacrifice. #corroborates (0.90) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 138
• Sacralized nationalism licenses violence even within a pacifist religion #exemplifies (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 179
• Nationalism can overtake faith as a worldview while inheriting its exclusivity #corroborates (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 170
• Sacralizing religion extends state power across identity, law, and violence #expands (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 67