Nationalisms and Religious Identities—2nd Edition
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 41
Special Issue Editor
Interests: religion and nationalism; religious and secular humanisms; theories of modernity; interreligious conflict and dialogue
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Dear Colleagues,
Since the 1990s, categories such as “religious nationalism” and “religious ethnonationalism” have been established as commonplace in the studies of religio-national connections as sources of exclusion and conflict. This Special Issue will focus on the relationship between nationalisms and religious identities to complicate the usual approaches to religious and national identification. We are interested in probing the religio-national phenomenology with regard to gender race, and class. We welcome contributions that challenge the binary accounts of nationalism and religious identities, including contributions that engage in the postcolonial and decolonial frames of analysis and critique. We seek articles that examine transnational politics and universal aspects of religious identities, as these challenge the nation-state configurations of national identities and the boundaries of citizenship. We invite sociological, historical, theoretical and normative scholarly articles that address the relationship between nationalism and religious identities.
We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 200–300 words summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest Editor or the Assistant Editor of Religions. Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editors in order to ensure that the articles fit within the scope of the Special Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Slavica Jakelić
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- nationalisms and religious identities
- gender, race, and class
- citizenship
- transnational politics
- postcolonial and decolonial critiques
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