The Institutional Logic of Religious Nationalism: Sex, Violence and the Ends of History

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This essay seeks to explain the practices of contemporary religious nationalisms by examining these movements not as an agonistic struggle between groups, but as an effort to transform the institutional architecture of society. That religious nationalist movements tend toward violence and are preoccupied with the regulation of sexuality can be derived from the institutional logic of religion, from its parallel and conflicting claims to the ontological ground of state authority, from the fraught relation between birth, death and state authority. Using the inner logic of Max Weber's theory of value spheres, I show how the constitution of political authority involves a ‘religious’ ordering of love and death, which lends itself to religious politicization. Violent death and reproductive sex are institutionally natural stakes in a struggle over the interface between state and religion.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21567689.2011.564403