ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture 18: Religious Nationalism and Conflict

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 1AB3
• Professor: Karen Mc Garry

Document Summary

We are all neighbours: bosnia (1993 by tone bringa) Between january to early april this film was made. Something that develops and is imagined ethnic nationalism. All slovak and speak same language, and share same territory. Most people do not view their own identities as shaped by culture. They believe they are an intrinsic part of their being, that they are primordial, and something one is born with think about how challenging it was for many of you to re-think the concept of race! We use naturalizing discourses to talk about nationalism. Mark juergensmeyer, the global rise of religious nationalism : anthropologist who tries to define religious nationalism in a broad sense and tries to distill the major characteristics of this term. An ideology that combines traditional religious beliefs in divine law and authority with the modern notion of the nation-state. In states, christian fundamentalists argued and protested that government is becoming too secularized (separation of church and state)