A five minute video Future of Religious Nationalism based on an interview of Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth and No God but God: The origin and Evolution of Islam.
Aslan argues that religion as the focus of collective identity is not something weird but religion is a force that cannot be controlled in geographic boundaries by a state. Religious nationalism will thus fade away but it cannot be suppressed.
The prescription of Aslan is that religious nationalism should be allowed to fail. Aslan contends that if we allow religious nationalists to compete and win, one of the two things will happen. Either religious nationalists will fail or they will moderate their ideology as AKP, the ruling party of Turkey, has done.
Aslan argues that religion as the focus of collective identity is not something weird but religion is a force that cannot be controlled in geographic boundaries by a state. Religious nationalism will thus fade away but it cannot be suppressed.
The prescription of Aslan is that religious nationalism should be allowed to fail. Aslan contends that if we allow religious nationalists to compete and win, one of the two things will happen. Either religious nationalists will fail or they will moderate their ideology as AKP, the ruling party of Turkey, has done.
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