Illiberal Politics and Religion in Europe and Beyond

Concepts, Actors, and Identity Narratives
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von Anja Hennig, Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann (Hg.)

Globale Migrationsbewegungen, Sicherheitsbedrohungen und soziale Umwälzungen haben in den vergangenen Jahren den Aufstieg populistischer rechter Parteien und Bewegungen in Europa und im transatlantischen Raum befördert. Religiöse Akteure stellen potenzielle Allianzpartner für diese Gruppierungen dar. Denn religiöse Interpretationen, etwa die Bezugnahme auf christliche Traditionen, bieten ein Reservoir für die Konstruktion vermeintlich natürlicher Geschlechterordnungen, exkludierender Vorstellungen homogener Nationen und anti-muslimischer Narrative. Dieses Buch analysiert die ideologische, strukturelle und historische Verbindung von Religion und illiberalen Politiken in europäischen Demokratien. mehr

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  • Inhaltsverzeichnis

    Preface

    I. Concepts and Theory
    Introduction: Liberal Democracies under Assault
    Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann, Anja Hennig

    The Ambivalences of Democracy: Religion and Illiberal Politics
    Anja Hennig, Oliver Hidalgo

    Religion as a Paradigm of Authority, Hierarchy and (In)Equality — On Conceptualizing Linkages between Religious Patterns of Thought and Illiberal Politics in Modern Democracy
    Oliver Hidalgo

    Uniting Through Opposition: The Chains of Equivalence Politics of the Populist Right and Its Use of Religion
    Manon Westphal

    II. Christian Identity Narratives and Anti-Muslim Politics
    Hijacking Religion for the Sake of the Nation: Illiberal Democracy in Hungary
    Robert Sata

    Between Catholic traditionalism and Laïcité: The religious dimension in thought and action of the Front National in France
    Yves Bizeul (†)

    The Religious Dimensions of the Spanish Radical Right: Voters, Ideology and Communication of Vox
    Jakob Schwörer, Xavier Romero-Vidal, Belén Fernández-García

    Turning away from tolerance: Religion and illiberal politics in Austria
    Astrid Mattes

    (Il-)liberal Public Policies on Islam in Switzerland: The Handshake Affair in Public Discourse and State Religious Policy
    Antonius Liedhegener, Laura Johanna Lots

    III. Christian Identity Narratives and Nationalisms
    Hussitism and Illiberal Politics in the Czech Republic: A Historical Religious Legacy in Dispute
    Miroslav Mareš

    Orthodoxy as Exclusivist Identity in the Greek Radical Right: Discourse Analysis and Electoral Behavior
    Konstantinos Papastathis, Anastasia Litina

    A Catholic Far-Right Party in Italy? How the Lega Nord Rediscovered Catholicism and Anti-Gender Politics
    Fabio Bolzonar

    Instrumentalizing Religious Symbols: Anti-Liberal Narratives in the US and Brazil
    Katja Freistein, Frank Gadinger, Christine Unrau

    IV. (Il)liberal Christian Actors and Public Policies
    Political Genderphobia in Germany: How Opposition to Gender-sensitive Education Reforms Unites Political and Religious Right-wing Actors
    Anja Hennig

    The Christian Orthodox Church and Illiberal Politics in Romania
    Radu Cinpoeş

    Illiberal Migration Politics and the Divided Catholic Church in Poland since 2015
    Anja Hennig, Madalena Meyer Resende

    (Il)liberal Intervention? Religion and Moral Politics in Western Europe and the United States of America
    Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann

    V. Perspectives
    Religion and (Il)liberal Politics. Interview of the editors with Michael Minkenberg, European University Viadrina, Comparative Political Science, Frankfurt (Oder), 1/10/2020
    Conclusion: Religion and Illiberal Politics: Patterns of an Ambivalent Relationship
    Anja Hennig

    Authors

Anja Hennig (Hg.), Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann (Hg.). Illiberal Politics and Religion in Europe and Beyond. Concepts, Actors, and Identity Narratives. Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus Verlag 19 (Reihe 'Religion und Moderne' 19).