Factors that have influenced this argument are based on Brubaker’s work Religion and Nationalism: Four Approaches he notes that the key aspects to focus on in this debate are how religion helps explain aspects of nationalism, looking at religion and nationalism as similar phenomena and also the idea that religion remains a part of nationalism. Both religion and nationalism are interesting to study in this respect because of their broad nature; there are many aspects to take into consideration, the most important of which being the study of the relationship between the two. It is suggested that nationalism is nothing more than “the universality of beings” (Durkheim, E. 1995), outlining the notion that the concept of nations and nationalism is
