Religion, nationalism and transnationalism in the South Caucasus

Although nation states remain powerful actors, transnationalism is politically relevant and encompasses different forms like diasporas, transnational networks, or border crossing communities. This chapter analyses the entanglement of nationalism and transnationalism among religious groups. It demonstrates that a religious group’s nationalism depends a great deal on its transnational or global backdrop and that its transnational relations will modify the kind of nationalism it establishes. This chapter draws on case studies of religious groups under different national and transnational constellations in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.