Europe versus Islam?: Right-Wing Populist Discourse and the Construction of a Civilizational Identity

Kaya, Ayhan; Tecmen, Ayşe

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“…Damaging events characterized as the results of "Islamist terrorism" have taken place in many European countries in recent years (Kaya and Tecmen 2019). As a result, it is now fashionable to "talk of a 'clash of civilizations' between the West and Islam" (Waever 2006).…”

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“…2 Fourth, right-wing populists typically seek to identify Islam as a faith and Muslims as a group as a fundamental "civilizational" threat to historically and culturally defined "Christian" or "post-Christian" nations of the USA and Europe, which challenges them culturally, religiously, civilizationally, socially, and politically. Finally, right-wing, anti-immigration, populist politicians have achieved enhanced electoral support in many European countries by exploiting real or imagined societal fears of a "Muslim invasion", a concern stimulated by the Arab Uprisings of 2011 and the continuing Syrian civil war (Brubaker 2017a;Haynes 2016;Kaya and Tecmen 2019;Kratochvíl 2019;Ozzano 2019).…”

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“…Right-wing, anti-immigration, populist politicians have recently either won power or a significantly increased share of the vote, albeit without achieving power, in the USA and several European countries, including the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and Sweden (Brubaker 2017a(Brubaker , 2017bHaynes 2019a;Joppke 2018;Kaya and Tecmen 2019). In the USA, a turn to right-wing populism was emphatically demonstrated by Donald Trump's unexpected election as president in November 2016.…”

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Right-Wing Populism and Religion in Europe and the USA

Haynes

2020

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The aim of this paper is to examine comparatively the growth and political effectiveness of right-wing populism in Western Europe, Central Europe, and the USA since 9/11. The focus is on such politicians’ vilification of Islam as a faith and Muslims as a people. The paper examines the following research question: how and why do right-wing populists in the USA and Europe use an ideological form of “Christianity”, known variously as “Christianism” or “Christian civilizationism”, to vilify Muslims and Islam? The political purpose seems obvious: to influence public perceptions and to win votes by questioning the desirability of Muslims in both the USA and Europe, claiming that Muslims’ religious and cultural attributes make them unacceptable as neighbors. As Muslims are not capable, so the argument goes, of assimilating to European or American norms, values, and behavior, then they must be excluded or strongly controlled for the benefit of nativist communities. Right-wing populists in both the USA and Europe pursue this strategy because they see it as chiming well with public opinion at a time of great uncertainty, instability, and insecurity.

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Right-Wing Populism and Religion in Europe and the USA

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2020

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“…Christianity, in this view, is embraced not as a religion but as a civilizational identity understood in antithetical opposition to Islam. This, he and others argue, lies at the core of the stunning electoral success of new forms of national populism in Europe and the USA (Brubaker 2017b;Kaya and Tecmen 2019).…”

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A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics

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Laruelle

2021

Nationalities Papers

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A new wave of scholarship has made major advances in how we understand the politics of civilizational identity by drawing powerfully from conceptual tools developed over the years to study other forms of identity. What unites this wave is treating civilizations not as distinctive “things” that might “clash” but as meaningful social imaginings. This growing body of work is far from monolithic, generating alternative theories that should structure scholarly debate going forward. Central issues include whether civilizational identity is primarily elite led or mass driven, whether it inherently involves conflictual human impulses, what the role of religion and values are in driving it, what its relationship is to nationalism, and how similarly we can expect the countries and people who share civilizational identity to behave. We also find emerging debates on what this newly conceptualized civilizational identity explains in contemporary world politics. Social scientists are now only beginning to apply important tools of social science to this question, with even public opinion research in its infancy. Early findings suggest civilizational identity may be shaping not only elite foreign policy making but also patterns of domestic politics, including the recent rise of populism and levels of democracy and authoritarianism more generally.

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“…m.in. : Pickel, Öztürk, 2021;Cervi, 2020;Oztig i in., 2020;Kalmar, 2019;Kaya, Tecmen, 2019;Kortmann i in., 2019;Whi-te, 2019;Botsch i in., 2012), ogniskujących się wokół takich toposów, jak: mizoginia, fanatyzm i nietolerancja (Wiedemann, 2016).…”

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„Bezbożny sojusz”? populizm i wiodące religie monoteistyczne

Chrostowski

2021

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Populizm to jedno z największych wyzwań współczesności nie tylko w rozumieniu kulturowym, społecznym i politycznym, ale także religijnym. Niezależnie od tego, czy to judaizm, chrześcijaństwo lub islam, każda z tych religii wraz z jej symbolami, obrazami, metaforami i przypowieściami, jest narażana na mimowolny i „bezbożny sojusz” z populizmem, który wykorzystuje religię do osiągnięcia własnych celów na drodze politycznej manipulacji, potęgowania postaw antyimigranckich, dewaluacji innych grup społecznych, a także antyestablishmentu i antypluralizmu. Celem niniejszego artykułu jest zatem ukazanie relacji, jakie zachodzą pomiędzy populistyczną „ideologią o cienkim rdzeniu”, a głównymi religiami monoteistycznymi w ramach ideologicznego zawłaszczania religii przez populistów, które posiada każdorazowo jednakowy „punkt styczny”, tj. upolitycznienie religii i sakralizację polityki.

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Europe versus Islam?: Right-Wing Populist Discourse and the Construction of a Civilizational Identity

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Right-Wing Populism and Religion in Europe and the USA

Right-Wing Populism and Religion in Europe and the USA

A New Wave of Research on Civilizational Politics

„Bezbożny sojusz”? populizm i wiodące religie monoteistyczne

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