{"product_id":"the-godless-crusade-religion-populism-and-right-wing-identity-politics-in-the-west-hardback-9781009262163","title":"The Godless Crusade; Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West (Hardback) 9781009262163","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Godless Crusade\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReligion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores how right-wing populists use religion as a cultural identity marker against minorities, while remaining distanced from Christian values, beliefs, and institutions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTobias Cremer (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009262163, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 March 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e284 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.3 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction: the new crusaders\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Foundations: 2. Definitions, methods, cases and sources\u003cbr\u003e 3. A fourfold argument: the identity cleavage, the secular right, religious immunity, and Christian leadership\u003cbr\u003e 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?\u003cbr\u003e 5. The advent of the AfD in the context of the new identity cleavage\u003cbr\u003e 6. Defenders of the faith? The AfD's Christian credentials under scrutiny\u003cbr\u003e 7. Religious immunity: voting behaviour and the Church's social firewall\u003cbr\u003e 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'\u003cbr\u003e 9. France's new identity cleavage and the rise of the far right\u003cbr\u003e 10. La fille ainée de l'Église? Christianism and secularism in the French populist right\u003cbr\u003e 11. A successful dédiabolisation? Factors in understanding the weakening of religious immunity to populism in France\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 13. The new social cleavage: from religious culture wars to white identity politics\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Saviour of Christian America? Trumpism's Christian credentials through the lens of the cultural-ethical triangle\u003cbr\u003e 15. A Faustian bargain? Understanding white Christian support for Trump\u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e 17. Democracy after God? Faith, populism and the future of liberal democracy\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Comparative politics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Comparative politics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Comparative%20politics%20%5BJPB%5D%22\"\u003eJPB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265414451480,"sku":"9781009262163","price":71.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781009262163i_3fab4645-738b-4b77-a99a-cecf63d01628.jpg?v=1696791701","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-godless-crusade-religion-populism-and-right-wing-identity-politics-in-the-west-hardback-9781009262163","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}