Sacralized national identity emerges amid state collapse crises to rally mobilization
Evidence
In this chapter, I will show how the discourse on “Serbian Jerusalem” emerged in the early 1980s amidst the crisis leading to the collapse of Tito’s Yugoslavia and the restructuring of nations in this part of southeastern Europe. … The new “religious” nationalism or, in the Balkan case, more appropriately called ethnoreligious, is usually described as the fusion of religious and national identities. More specifically, “religious nationalism relies on religious identities and myths to define the nation and its goals” (Grzymala-Busse 2019, 2). — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1466
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘religious nationalism’/‘ethnoreligious nationalism’ as fused religious and national identity used to define nation and its goals.
- XREF: connects to: Globalization’s disruptions trigger reactive movements defending myths of unitary national identity — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3884; Cults attract people whose identity pillars have collapsed in a crisis — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice: How to Communicate…, 401; Crises, real or imagined, drive popular support for nationalist and populist leaders — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 82 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Crises, real or imagined, drive popular support for nationalist and populist leaders
#corroborates(0.85) — Erin K. Jenne and Promise Frank Ejiofor, Ethnopopulism and genocidal…, 82 - Globalization’s disruptions trigger reactive movements defending myths of unitary national identity
#corroborates(0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3884 - Cults attract people whose identity pillars have collapsed in a crisis
#corroborates(0.75) — Holm Gero Hümmler, Ulrike Schiesser, Fact and Prejudice, 401