Assaf Sharon

The gods are once again afoot in the public square. Across the globe, a toxic mixture of religion and nationalism is upending liberal conventions. In the United States, Christian nationalists have reshaped both the Republican Party and American politics. In Europe, reactionary populists champion Christianity as a political cause and a national ethos. In India, the ethnoreligious nationalism of Hindutva is the official ideology of the ruling party. Similar trends are visible in many other countries. Repudiating the separation between religion and state, these religious nationalists do not regard the connection between faith and flag as a conjunction but a fusion––their faith is nationalist and their nationalism is religious. Assaf Sharon’s book project investigates the ideology of religious nationalism and liberal responses to it, with particular attention to Jewish religious nationalism in the State of Israel.