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The ecumenism of rage: Christianism as an identity of the Italian Radical Right.
Goffredo Adinolfi (Goffredo Adinolfi); Andrea Molle (Andrea Molle);
Event Title
SISP Conference 2021
Year (definitive publication)
2021
Language
English
Country
Italy
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Abstract
Religion is by far one of the main sources of legitimation of the Radical Right Populist parties (RRP). Following the European Conservative and Reformists claim Europe must be “based on a shared Judeo-Christian heritage and enlightenment” and built “as a community of nations”. Christian values are defined as an identity and depict the borders of the new community. Two are at least the main layers throughout this ideology is spreading: official and un-official. The official layer is that one of the political parties, where religion is used as an instrument to fight against post-modern values and Islamism. The un-official level is made my a plenty of different groups and movements more or less based on conspiracy theories, such as QAnon. Two are the paper’s aim. First is to bring to light the main axes of an entirely new way to think Christianism based more on feelings of belonging rather than on faith, more on range and adversarial terms, rather than on ecumenism. Second is to understand which is the impact of a theoretical concept such is the Christian roots on concrete legislation or in avoiding a new legislation.
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