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The godless crusade : religion, populism and right-wing identity politics in the West / Tobias Cremer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cremer, Tobias, 1992- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Populism--Religious aspects.
- Populism.
- Populism--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Identity politics--Western countries.
- Identity politics.
- Western countries--Politics and government--21st century.
- Western countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 335 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This volume 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the new crusaders
- Definitions, methods, cases and sources
- A fourfold argument : the identity cleavage, the secular right, religious immunity, and Christian leadership
- Christianity and democracy in Germany after WWII : from a marriage of convenience to happily ever after?
- The advent of the AfD in the context of the new identity cleavage
- Defenders of the faith? The AfD's Christian credentials under scrutiny
- Religious immunity : voting behaviour and the church's social firewall
- La République laïque vs. la France Catholique : the rise and decline of French "Catho-Laïcité"
- France's new identity cleavage and the rise of the far right
- La fille ainée de l'église? Christianism and secularism in the French populist right
- A successful dédiabolisation? Factors in understanding the weakening of religious immunity to populism in France
- "A nation under God"? American civil religion between the wall of separation and Christian nationalism
- The new social cleavage : from religious culture wars to white identity politics
- The saviour of Christian America? Trumpism's Christian credentials through the lens of the cultural-ethical triangle
- A Faustian bargain? Understanding white Christian support for Trump.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 12, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781009262118
- 1009262114
- 9781009262156
- 1009262157
- 9781009262125
- 1009262122
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