The institutional politics of religious nationalism

"The institutional politics of religious nationalism" (by Roger, Friedland, Calif., USA), a rendered version from the International Sociology, 3-1999, argues that religious nationalism represents an institutional project to t ransform the ontology of the social, to redefine the substance of collectiv e representation, the principle of domination and the criteria for membersh ip. It thereby challenges the theories like those of Bourdieu and Alexander . Religious nationalism offers a way to secure morality against an increasi ngly post-humanist world. It restores the binaries of inside and outside, u s and them, good and evil, man and woman and centers them in sacred space.