Nation-State, Religious Policy and Ethnicity: General Study from the Anthropological/Ethnological View

Abstract

The nation-state, religious policy and ethnicity are a phrase of very important questions embracing the complicated multi-dimensional relationships between politics, economy, society, culture and ethnicity. The inharmony of these relationships will lead to danger of conflict, destabilization of political situation, economy, society, defense security, integrity of territorial sovereignty of a nation. This writing provides a research overview of the nation-state, religious and ethnic policy from the anthropological/ethnological view which aims to supplement the ready approaches. In difference from the viewpoints and macro and top-down approaches, this study approaches the issues from the ethnic and religious view of the ethnic minorities in interaction with the nation-state and its policy so it considers religious policy is a component of public policies. When constructing the religious policy, it is needed to pay attention on the ethnic and religious relationship because the vulnerable ethnic minority groups often have more possibilities participating in ethnic, religious conflicts.