**Peter C. Mentzel**

Independent Researcher, Liberty Fund, Inc. 11301 N. Meridian Street Carmel, Indianapolis, IN 46032-4564, USA; pmentzel@libertyfund.org

Received: 1 September 2020; Accepted: 22 September 2020; Published: 28 September 2020

**Abstract:** This essay is the introduction to the special issue of *Genealogy*, "For God and Country: Essays on Nationalism and Religion." It poses the question of what relationship, if any, nationalism has to religion, and then briefly reviews the history and current state of the scholarship on the topic. This essay then introduces the seven essays making up the special edition. It concludes by observing that, overall, the collection suggests that while religion and nationalism are more closely related than previously held, they nevertheless remain two distinct phenomena.

**Keywords:** nationalism; religion; Islamism
