TY  - JOUR
AB  - 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.
AU  - Hennig, Anja
AU  - Hidalgo, Oliver
DA  - 2021-09-15
DO  - 10.3390/rel12090774
KW  - Cultural Christianity
KW  - illiberalism
KW  - ambivalence
KW  - secularization
KW  - democracy
KW  - European identity
KW  - memory politics
LA  - eng
N1  - Religions 12 (2021) 9, 774, 1-20
PY  - 2021-09-15
TI  - Illiberal Cultural Christianity? European Identity Constructions and Anti-Muslim Politics
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-96009439888
Y2  - 2024-11-21T21:51:03
ER  -