Dini Milliyetçiliğin Müphemliği: Kavramsal Bir Berraklaştırma Girişimi

Muttalip Çağlayan

doi:10.36484/liberal.1667219

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Ambiguity of Religious Nationalism: An Attempt of Conceptual Clarification

Abstract

Nationalism studies have long overlooked the intricate relationship between the sacred and the profane, largely due to the tendency to reduce nationalism to a purely secular phenomenon. This, however, has shifted as states, non-state actors, and transnational organizations increasingly invoke the emotional repertoire of religion. Nevertheless, the scholarly literature on religious nationalism remains underdeveloped at both the conceptual and theoretical levels. This study addresses the conceptual ambiguity surrounding the term religious nationalism by proposing a threefold categorization to overcome this issue. The first category examines the alignment of religion with ethnic identity, including its transformation into an ethnic marker. The second explores how religion reinforces national unity by intertwining with national claims. The third focuses on the use of religion as a boundary marker at the civilizational level. This study argues that the complex interplay between secular and religious nationalism gives rise to hybrid models in which secularization and religiosity coexist as flexible processes that are constantly evolving and subject to change.

Keywords

Religion , Nationalism , Secularization , Hybridization

Dini Milliyetçiliğin Müphemliği: Kavramsal Bir Berraklaştırma Girişimi

Öz

Milliyetçilik çalışmalarında uzun süre ihmal edilen milliyetçilik ile kutsal inançlar arasındaki ilişki, günümüzde devletlerin, devlet dışı aktörlerin ve siyasi liderlerin dinin duygusal repertuarına sıkça başvurmasıyla birlikte belirginlik kazanmıştır. Bununla birlikte, dini milliyetçiliğe ilişkin literatür kavramsal ve kuramsal düzeyde henüz yeterince olgunlaşmamıştır. Bu çalışma, kavramın içerdiği belirsizlikleri ele alarak, bu sorunu aşmak amacıyla üçlü bir kategori önerisinde bulunmaktadır. İlk kategoride, dinin etnik kimlikle özdeşleşmesi ve zamanla etnikleşmesi incelenirken; ikincide, dinin milli ideallerle bütünleşerek ulusal birliğin pekişmesindeki rolüne ışık tutulmaktadır. Üçüncü kategori ise, dini kimliğin medeniyet düzeyinde sınır inşası işlevine odaklanmaktadır. Çalışma, seküler ve dini milliyetçilik arasındaki karmaşık etkileşimlerin hibrit modeller ortaya çıkardığını ve sekülerleşme ile dindarlaşma süreçlerinin esnek, bağlama duyarlı ve yeniden üretilebilir olduğunu savunmaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Din , Milliyetçilik , Melezleşme , Sekülerleşme

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Muttalip Çağlayan ^*
0000-0003-1252-2335
Türkiye

Erken Görünüm Tarihi

26 Temmuz 2025

Yayımlanma Tarihi

18 Haziran 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

28 Mart 2025

Kabul Tarihi

21 Mayıs 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Sayı: 118

DOI

https://doi.org/10.36484/liberal.1667219

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https://izlik.org/JA44NE25WB

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Çağlayan, M. (2025). Dini Milliyetçiliğin Müphemliği: Kavramsal Bir Berraklaştırma Girişimi. Liberal Düşünce Dergisi, 118, 117-143. https://doi.org/10.36484/liberal.1667219

Ambiguity of Religious Nationalism: An Attempt of Conceptual Clarification

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Dini Milliyetçiliğin Müphemliği: Kavramsal Bir Berraklaştırma Girişimi

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