Seemingly apolitical religious practices can sustain overtly political counter-narratives.

Evidence

Finally, while they may appear to be overtly politicized, as a means to underpin claims to the lost homelands, the forms of commemoration among Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs are still subject to very different uses, interests, and emotions – from outright revanchism to private mourning. As Baussant points out with regard to pied-noir pilgrimages in France, a decidedly religious and not primarily political practice may ironically help to sustain overtly political counter-narratives. — Manuel Borutta and Jan C. Jansen, Vertriebene and Pieds-Noirs in Postwar…, 95

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: an ‘apolitical’ practice reinforcing political ends resonates with the reader’s question about professed conviction diverging from measured political function.
• XREF: connects to: Religious otherworldliness can function as a mechanism of political dispossession. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 170; Political movements must engage the religious terrain where religion is the dominant ideological domain.; Religious claims serve different functions depending on political position — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 207

Broader Connections

• Religious claims serve different functions depending on political position #qualifies (0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 207
• Religious otherworldliness can function as a mechanism of political dispossession. #complicates (0.73) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 170
• Political movements must engage the religious terrain where religion is the dominant ideological domain. #expands (0.72)