Illiberal Cultural Christianity? European Identity Constructions and Anti-Muslim Politics
This paper refers to the ambivalence of secularization in order to explain why Cultural Christianity can show both a liberal and illiberal character. These two faces of Cultural Christianity are mostly due to the identity functions that, not only faith-based religion, but a particularly culturalized...
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Dokumenttypen: | Artikel |
Medientypen: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Publikation in MIAMI: | 20.10.2021 |
Datum der letzten Änderung: | 17.01.2023 |
Angaben zur Ausgabe: | [Electronic ed.] |
Quelle: | Religions 12 (2021) 9, 774, 1-20 |
Schlagwörter: | Cultural Christianity; illiberalism; ambivalence; secularization; democracy; European identity; memory politics |
Fachgebiet (DDC): | 320: Politikwissenschaft |
Lizenz: | CC BY 4.0 |
Sprache: | English |
Förderung: | Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster). |
Format: | PDF-Dokument |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-96009439888 |
Weitere Identifikatoren: | DOI: 10.17879/31059582316 |
Permalink: | https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-96009439888 |
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Onlinezugriff: | 10.3390_rel12090774.pdf |
This paper refers to the ambivalence of secularization in order to explain why Cultural Christianity can show both a liberal and illiberal character. These two faces of Cultural Christianity are mostly due to the identity functions that, not only faith-based religion, but a particularly culturalized version of religion, entails. Proceeding from this, it will be demonstrated here how Cultural Christianity can turn into a concrete illiberal marker of identity or a resource for illiberal collective identity. Our argument focuses on the link between right-wing nationalism and Cultural Christianity from a historical-theoretical perspective, and illustrates the latter with the example of contemporary illiberal and selective European memory constructions including a special emphasis on the exclusivist elements.