Sacralizing religion extends state power across identity, law, and violence

Evidence

What stands at the center of our inquiry is the impact of the intertwining, particularly when religious claims and nationalism are fused to the extent that religious claims bestow sacredness on the state’s working of power. Examples include establishing the state’s identity; determining regime type, including governmentality and the questions of democracy and equality; codifying laws accordingly; defining the politics of state territoriality; endorsing particular perceptions of the “self” and the “other”; engaging in strategic and policy planning; and sanctioning state violence in the service of all of the above. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 67

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s core question: the volume treats religious sacralization of state power as the mechanism converting ideology into exclusion, law, and sanctioned violence. Connects to sacred-values framework mentioned in the reader’s stated purpose. — connects to: Religion functions as the enabling power behind a preferential legal system — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1014; Politics fused with sacred religious claims follow distinctive conflict dynamics — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 66; Modern theology’s casuistry legitimizes state violence while preserving Christian status — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 835 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Religious explanations of terrorist violence serve to expand state surveillance powers. #exemplifies (0.86) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 265
• Religion functions as the enabling power behind a preferential legal system #expands (0.85) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1014
• Religious framing of terrorism justifies state expansion that erodes due process #corroborates (0.85)
• Modern theology’s casuistry legitimizes state violence while preserving Christian status #exemplifies (0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 835
• Christian nationalism fuses ethnic, racial, and political hierarchy with religious identity #exemplifies (0.82) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 66
• Politics fused with sacred religious claims follow distinctive conflict dynamics #expands (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 66
• Sacralized nationalism licenses violence even within a pacifist religion #exemplifies (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 179
• States sacralize political claims with religious certainty, increasingly overriding public attention on non-state actors #expands (0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 81
• Religion fuses with nationalism only when it legitimizes actual state governance #qualifies (0.78) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 75
• Religion can override political rights and material gains when believers hold it inviolable #expands (0.78)
• Religious sacralization of politics produces tyranny no differently than secular ideology #complicates (0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 1752
• The religion-secular boundary is a construct serving Western state power #expands (0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 685