Berkley Center

This article by Jocelyne Cesari compares Israel and Turkey to demonstrate how religious nationalism can be analyzed by a combination of historical institutionalism and conceptual history of religious ideas and doctrines. Both cases exemplify how the building of the nation-state was associated with the exportation of the Western concept of religion. The resulting association between national territory, state, and religion can explain the existing politicization of religion. It was published in Religions (volume 9, issue 11).