Explores how right-wing populists use religion as a cultural identity marker for minorities, while remaining distanced from Christian values, beliefs, and institutions. Based on interviews with key figures in the USA and Europe, this book asks how religiously diverse societies can confront the rise of a secular, populist and identitarian right.
Explores how right-wing populists use religion as a cultural identity marker for minorities, while remaining distanced from Christian values, beliefs, and institutions. Based on interviews with key figures in the USA and Europe, this book asks how religiously diverse societies can confront the rise of a secular, populist and identitarian right.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Tobias Cremer is a Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, and an Associate Member of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the relationship between religion, secularisation and the rise of right-wing identity politics. He is the co-author of Faith, Nationalism and the Future of Liberal Democracy (2021).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: the new crusaders; Part I. Foundations: 2. Definitions, methods, cases and sources; 3. A fourfold argument: the identity cleavage, the secular right, religious immunity, and Christian leadership; Part II. The German Churches and the AfD: Debunking Populist Sanctimony: 4. Christianity and democracy in Germany after WWII: from a marriage of convenience to happily ever after?; 5. The advent of the AfD in the context of the new identity cleavage; 6. Defenders of the faith? The AfD's Christian credentials under scrutiny; 7. Religious immunity: voting behaviour and the Church's social firewall; Part III. French Catholicism between the RN and laicité: between the devil and the dark blue sea: 8. La République Laïque vs. La France Catholique: the rise and decline of French 'Catho-Laïcité'; 9. France's new identity cleavage and the rise of the far right; 10. La fille ainée de l'Église? Christianism and secularism in the French populist right; 11. A successful dédiabolisation? Factors in understanding the weakening of religious immunity to populism in France; Part IV. A Faustian bargain? American Christianity and Trumpism.12. 'A Nation under God'? American civil religion between the wall of separation and Christian nationalism; 13. The new social cleavage: from religious culture wars to white identity politics; 14. The Saviour of Christian America? Trumpism's Christian credentials through the lens of the cultural-ethical triangle; 15. A Faustian bargain? Understanding white Christian support for Trump; Part V. Conclusion: 16. Squaring the circle: four cornerstones of a general theory of the relationship between right-wing populism and religion in the West; 17. Democracy after God? Faith, populism and the future of liberal democracy; Bibliography; Appendix A; Appendix B.
1. Introduction: the new crusaders; Part I. Foundations: 2. Definitions, methods, cases and sources; 3. A fourfold argument: the identity cleavage, the secular right, religious immunity, and Christian leadership; Part II. The German Churches and the AfD: Debunking Populist Sanctimony: 4. Christianity and democracy in Germany after WWII: from a marriage of convenience to happily ever after?; 5. The advent of the AfD in the context of the new identity cleavage; 6. Defenders of the faith? The AfD's Christian credentials under scrutiny; 7. Religious immunity: voting behaviour and the Church's social firewall; Part III. French Catholicism between the RN and laicité: between the devil and the dark blue sea: 8. La République Laïque vs. La France Catholique: the rise and decline of French 'Catho-Laïcité'; 9. France's new identity cleavage and the rise of the far right; 10. La fille ainée de l'Église? Christianism and secularism in the French populist right; 11. A successful dédiabolisation? Factors in understanding the weakening of religious immunity to populism in France; Part IV. A Faustian bargain? American Christianity and Trumpism.12. 'A Nation under God'? American civil religion between the wall of separation and Christian nationalism; 13. The new social cleavage: from religious culture wars to white identity politics; 14. The Saviour of Christian America? Trumpism's Christian credentials through the lens of the cultural-ethical triangle; 15. A Faustian bargain? Understanding white Christian support for Trump; Part V. Conclusion: 16. Squaring the circle: four cornerstones of a general theory of the relationship between right-wing populism and religion in the West; 17. Democracy after God? Faith, populism and the future of liberal democracy; Bibliography; Appendix A; Appendix B.
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