Book contents
- The Godless Crusade
- The Godless Crusade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Foundations
- Part II The German Churches and the Alternative für Deutschland
- Part III French Catholicism, the Rassemblement National and Laïcité
- Chapter 8 La République Laïque vs. La France Catholique
- Chapter 9 France’s New Identity Cleavage and the Rise of the Far Right
- Chapter 10 La Fille Ainée de l’Église? Christianism and Secularism in the French Populist Right
- Chapter 11 A Successful Dédiabolisation?
- Part IV A Faustian Bargain?
- Part V Conclusion
- Appendix A List of Interviewees
- Appendix B Sample Questionnaire (Religious Leaders)
- References
- Index
Chapter 9 - France’s New Identity Cleavage and the Rise of the Far Right
from Part III - French Catholicism, the Rassemblement National and Laïcité
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2023
- The Godless Crusade
- The Godless Crusade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Foundations
- Part II The German Churches and the Alternative für Deutschland
- Part III French Catholicism, the Rassemblement National and Laïcité
- Chapter 8 La République Laïque vs. La France Catholique
- Chapter 9 France’s New Identity Cleavage and the Rise of the Far Right
- Chapter 10 La Fille Ainée de l’Église? Christianism and Secularism in the French Populist Right
- Chapter 11 A Successful Dédiabolisation?
- Part IV A Faustian Bargain?
- Part V Conclusion
- Appendix A List of Interviewees
- Appendix B Sample Questionnaire (Religious Leaders)
- References
- Index
Summary
Chapter 9 explores the recent re-politicisation of religion in France in more detail and finds that it was less linked to a revival of Catholicism than to the emergence of a new identity cleavage in French society, which itself is partly rooted in France’s rapid secularisation and Catholicism’s demise. Under the pressure of this new identity divide between cosmopolitans and communitarians, France’s political system has undergone a fundamental transformation, leading to a new bipolarity between the liberal-cosmopolitan camp of Macron’s La République en Marche and the populist-communitarian camp around the Rassemblement National and Éric Zemmour.
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- The Godless CrusadeReligion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West, pp. 125 - 138Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023