What happens when religious belonging becomes the organizing boundary of political conflict?
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Using Holy Hatred: Religious Conflicts of the '90s by James A. Haught as an entry point, this investigation examines how religious tribalism can separate communities, preserve historical grievances, and give violence the legitimacy of sacred duty.
Haught documents conflicts across the 1990s in which religious identity became intertwined with nationalism, ethnicity, territory, political leadership, and state power. The episode moves beyond a catalog of atrocities to trace the mechanisms beneath them: institutional authority, identity threat, sacred certainty, martyrdom, collective memory, and reciprocal violence.
The deeper tension lies between religion’s universal moral language and its capacity to reinforce exclusive group loyalty. The central feedback loop moves from perceived threat to mobilization, from mobilization to violence, and from violence to memories that strengthen the next generation’s fear and hostility.
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