Saving the people : how populists hijack religion / Nadia Marzouki, Duncan McDonnell, Olivier Roy (editors).
Publisher: London : Hurst & Company, 2016Description: xiii, 295 pages : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849045162; 9781849045209Subject(s): Populism![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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320.5662 REL Religion and the rise of populism / | 320.5662 REV The new populism : | 320.5662 RIC The rise of the outsiders : how mainstream politics lost its way / | 320.5662 SAV Saving the people : | 320.5662 TRA Transformations of populism in Europe and the Americas : | 320.5662 UND Understanding populist party organisation : the radical right in Western Europe / | 320.5662 ZEH Evolution, politics and charisma : |
Introduction: 1.Populism and Religion — Nadia Marzouki and Duncan McDonnell. 2.The Lega Nord — Duncan McDonnell. 3.The ‘Religious Conversion’ of the Austrian Populist Radical Right — Leila Hadj-Abdou. 4.Populism and Islam in Switzerland — Oscar Mazzoleni. 5.Using Faith to Exclude — Stijn van Kessel. 6.The French National Front — Olivier Roy. 7.Religion and Populism in Britain — Timothy Peace. 8.Defenders of the Cross — Ben Stanley. 9.‘The God of Hungarians’ — Zoltán Ádám and András Bozóki. 10.The Tea Party and Religion — Nadia Marzouki. 11.‘We Are Also the (Chosen) People, You Are Not’ — Dani Filc. 11.Beyond Populism — Olivier Roy.
Western democracies are experiencing a new wave of right-wing populism that seeks to mobilise religion for its own ends. With chapters on the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, Poland and Israel, Saving the People asks how populist movements have used religion for their own ends and how church leaders react to them. The authors contend that religion is more about belonging than belief for populists, with religious identities and traditions being deployed to define who can and cannot be part of ‘the people’. This in turn helps many populists to claim that native Christian communities are being threatened by a creeping and highly aggressive process of Islamisation, with Muslims becoming a key ‘enemy of the people’. While Church elites generally condemn this instrumental use of religions, populists take little heed, presenting themselves as the true saviours of the people. The policy implications of this phenomenon are significant, which makes this book all the more timely and relevant to current debate.