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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.
Contents
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.
