The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Nationalism

1. Introduction. Religion, Nationalism and Religious Nationalism
Jeffrey Haynes

Core Issues

2. Nationalism, Civil/Political Religion, and the Myth of the Secular West
François Gauthier

3. Sacro-Political Mutation: How the Nation Politically Transforms Religion
Jocelyne Cesari

4. Religion, Nationalism, and Religious Nationalism: A Genealogy
Peter Mentzel

5. Religion and Nationalism: Intersections, Tensions, and Synergies
Ahmet Erdi Öztürk, Umut Can Adisonmez, and Lacin Idil Oztig

6. Religion and Nationalism in a Globalising World
Anna Triandafyllidou

7. Religious Transnationalism, Nationalism, and State Power
Jeffrey Haynes

8. Understanding the Tensions Between Islamism and Nationalism in Islamist Populism: The Cases of Turkey, Indonesia, and Pakistan
Nicholas Morieson and Ihsan Yilmaz

9. Religion, Nationalism, Violence and Conflict
Mark Juergensmeyer

10. Religion, Nationalism and Immigration
Thomas Sealy and Tariq Modood

11. Religious Nationalism and Terrorism
Peter S. Henne

12. Religion and Nationalism in a Post-Secular World
Petr Kratochvíl

Country Case Studies

Christianity

13. Judgment by Fire: The Rapid Anti-Democratic Turn of American Christian Nationalism
Paul A. Djupe, Jacob R. Neiheisel, Anand E. Sokhey, and Brooklyn E. Walker

14. Religious Nationalism, Brazilian Style: How Minority Politics can Enunciate the Nation
Joanildo Burity

15. Northern Ireland: Changing Interactions of Religion and Nationalism in a Contested State
Liam O’Dowd

16. Religious Nationalism in Hungary: The Churchification of the Social Margins
Eszter Neumann, Judit Zsuzsanna Keller, Alexandra Szöke and Tünde ViragI

17. Catholicism, National Mythology and Nationalism in Poland
Geneviève Zubrzycki

18. Religion and Nationalism in Russia
Marko Veković

19. Religion and Nationalism in Nigeria
Toyin Falola

20. Christian Nationalism in Zambia, 1991 to 2024
Austin M. Cheyeka

Islam

21. Nationalism and Religion in Modern Turkey: a Symbiosis
İştar Gözaydın

22. Religion and Palestinian Nationalism
Khaled Hroub

23. Nationalism and Religion in Iran
Ali Banuazizi

24. Changing Dynamics of Religion and Nationalism in Pakistan: Zia-ul-Haq to Contemporary Times
Muhammad Aizzan Malik and Fouzia Ghani

25. Saudi Arabia: Becoming a Nation?
Brandon Friedman

26. Religious Nationalism in Indonesia: Nation-Building, (un-)Civil Society, and Segregated Citizenship
Deasy Simandjuntak

Buddhism

27. Japanese Buddhism, War involvement, and Nationalism
Kosuke Shimizu

28. The Tragedy of Buddhist Nationalism in Sri Lanka
Neil DeVotta

29. Buddhist Nationalism in Myanmar: Cultural Nationalist and Ressentiment Nationalist Discourses
Niklas Foxeus

30. Religion and Nationalism in Thailand
Tomas Larsson

31. Discerning Religious Nationalism Among Tibetans in Exile in India
Joanna Pereira Coelho

Judaism

32. Religion and Politics in Israel: Boundaries and Values
Hayim Katsman and Guy Ben-Porat

Hinduism

33. Hindu Nationalism in India
Andrea Malji and Shelli Israelsen

Biography

Jeffrey Haynes is Emeritus Professor of Politics at London Metropolitan University, UK. His areas of expertise are religion and international relations, religion and politics, democracy and democratisation, development studies and the politics of Ghana. He is the author or editor of more than 60 books. He received the International Studies Association Religion and International Relations Section’s Distinguished Scholar Award in 2016. He is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Democratization and Series Editor of the book series Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics.