The godless crusade : religion, populism and right-wing identity politics in the West

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The godless crusade : religion, populism and right-wing identity politics in the West

Tobias Cremer

Cambridge University Press, c2023

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-328) and index

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This book postulates that the rise of right-wing populism in the West and its references to religion are less driven by a resurgence of religious fervour, than by the emergence of a new secular identity politics. Based on exclusive interviews with 116 populist leaders, key policy makers and faith leaders in the USA, Germany, and France, it shows how right-wing populists use Christianity as a cultural identity marker of the 'pure people' against external 'others' while often remaining disconnected from Christian values, beliefs, and institutions. However, right-wing populists' willingness and ability to employ religion in this way critically depends on the actions of mainstream party politicians and faith leaders. They can either legitimise right-wing populists' identitarian use of religion or challenge it, thereby cultivating 'religious immunity' against populist appeals. As the populist wave breaks across the West, a new debate about the role of religion in society has begun.

目次

  • 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 laicite: between the devil and the dark blue sea: 8. La Republique Laique vs. La France Catholique: the rise and decline of French 'Catho-Laicite'
  • 9. France's new identity cleavage and the rise of the far right
  • 10. La fille ainee de l'Eglise? Christianism and secularism in the French populist right
  • 11. A successful dediabolisation? 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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