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

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? -- T...

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1. Verfasser: Cremer, Tobias (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, New York, NY, Melbourne, New Delhi, Singapore Cambridge University Press 2023
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Zusammenfassung: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.
"Based on exclusive elite-interviews with 116 religious and political leaders in three countries, "The Godless Crusade" not only makes a considerable theoretical contribution to the academic literature across different disciplines, but also represents a major intellectual intervention in contemporary social and political debates about how multi-cultural societies can confront the challenges of right-wing populism, white identity politics and religious activism"--
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 278-328 und Index
Beschreibung:xiii, 335 Seiten
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ISBN:9781009262163
978-1-009-26216-3
9781009262149
978-1-009-26214-9