Russian Orthodoxy fused national and religious identity as Judaism had done

Evidence

See Berdyaev, op. cit., p. 5: “Religion and nationality in the Muscovite kingdom grew up together, as they did also in the consciousness of the ancient Hebrew people. And in the same way as Messianic consciousness was an attribute of Judaism, it was an attribute of Russian Orthodoxy also.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2439

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s scaffolding goal on imagined community of the nation — fusion of religion and nationality as a mechanism of national identity formation, applicable to later Islamophobia readings. — connects to: Jewishness was transposed from a nation’s religion into a national religion — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 836