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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.
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.
Περιγραφή
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.
