Sacralized religious claims regulate whom states treat as entitled

Evidence

If the sacralization of politics is about power relations where state policies use religious framing or religious claims to regulate some groups and entities and position others as exclusively entitled, how precisely are we to understand the way such ideological norms are produced and used to maintain and stabilize the material, psychological, and political apparatus of governance, and how can we engage with conflict studies under such complexities? — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 54

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines sacralization of politics as a power mechanism that positions some groups as exclusively entitled and regulates others.
• XREF: connects to: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s religious framing is recent rather than primordial — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 51; Sacralized political discourse becomes constitutive regardless of professed sincerity — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 98; Sacralized politics racializes others to make their rights violatable — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 107