State sanctions against religious communities replaced pure education efforts

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 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Religious education in schools marked a retreat from educating citizens; Religious opposition repeatedly blocked education reform in the Protectorate; A secular state co-opted and thereby financed its own religious opposition (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Sacralizing religion extends state power across identity, law, and violence #complicates (0.76) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 67
• Religious opposition repeatedly blocked education reform in the Protectorate #complicates (0.74)