Introduction
The terms “Religion” and “Nationalism” have been long contested terminologies. The two terms have been designating multidimensional and large fields of phenomena. Along with this, the lack of agreement between the religion and the nationalism have been seemingly anti ethical, where nationalism has been intrinsically secular, nationalism is rather intrinsically religious and nationalism has looked to evolve with the decline of religion (Bell, 2003).
It is a term that has emerged and evolved during a period where the religious feelings have intensified. Similarly, religious and the nationalist conflicts have been stridently marking in the contemporary world which has been a major contributor in the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Balkans, United States and the Northern Island. Basically nationalism has become an ideology which has been claiming supreme loyalty from all the individuals for the different nation and state that represents it.
Along with this, Fried land a researcher has basically defined nationalism in statistic terms. As poor his research, he describes nationalism as a state centered form of collective subject formation and also as a set of discursive practices within which the territorial identity of a particular state along with the cultural identity of the different demographics of people whose collective representation is constituted within a single fact (Durkheim, 1995).
Discussion
Religion as a cause or explanation of nationalism
A basic way of analyzing and understanding the relationship between the two concepts, religion and nationalism has been looking to specifydifferent methods which have looked to explain the concept of nationalism. The argument can impact on different ways which depends upon the idea of nationalism that is helped and supported by religion which helps inexplaining the concept of nationalism. Various arguments have been made which depend upon the persistence, origins, emotional power, form or the content (Bendelow, 1998).
A number of studies have been conducted on the topic where the concept of religion has been the central figure in the development of the origins of nationalism. An important aspect of the research has explored the methods in which religious motifs, symbols and narratives have been transposed in the politicaldomain where they have looked to construct the nationalist claims. Similarly, various other studies have also taken place on the myth of ethnic election.
As per the researcher, he has argued upon the concept where he states “Mosaic moment” has been a distinctively nationalist in the content and the scope. He continues that the era also saw the birth of differentnationalist movements and programs that are called as covenantal nationalist (Bellahm, 1967).
Religion has been a major contributor in the development of the concept of nationalism. Religion not only helps in the political appropriation of the differentreligious symbols and the narratives but it also focuses on the other more indirect methods and ways also. The research has suggested and indicated that the broader process and the Protestant Reformation of confessionalization has been another major contributor in the development of the concept of nationalism in three entirelydifferent ways.
The three ways are generating different and unique modes of constructing and imagining the political relationships, the social relationships. Standardizing of vernacular languages, standardization and the cultural alignment.
Along with this, the different modes of institutionalizing and the imagining of religious community have looked to foster with the Reformation that is provided through the new models which are used for the political community. These lines of argument have been looking to emphasize on the egalitarian potential inherent in the notion of the prestige hood of all the believers.
Religion And Politics Case Solution
The new and the unique imagining religious community have been striking affinity with the understanding of the concept of nations. Along with this, the harmonizing concept of new and different modes of imagining community that has focused on the long term trajectory of Christianity which has furthered the thought of Protestantism. Another study has also argued that the intensification of gap between the divine and the human has looked to allow the social world which has to be conceived in the terms of its own autonomous law (Armstrong, 1996).
Moreover, nationalism in general involves a rather distinctive and unique organization of difference and also sameness. Nationalist ideology has in the recent looked to demand the political, social and the cultural processes which tend to generate the cultural homogeneity within the different political; units and also the cultural heterogeneity between them............................
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