A posture of protest? The search for Christian identity in a post-secular society: between secularised eschatology and a sacralisation of history
This article theorises ideations of "the people" in a comparative reflection on Latin-Christian theologies and typologies of time and secularised appropriations thereof in right-wing as well as far-right movements in Europe and the United States of America. Understanding the world in grand...
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| description | This article theorises ideations of "the people" in a comparative reflection on Latin-Christian theologies and typologies of time and secularised appropriations thereof in right-wing as well as far-right movements in Europe and the United States of America. Understanding the world in grand narratives of "good" and "evil" emerges from Christian eschatological hope: the hope of the restoration and renewal of the cosmos and the final defeat of evil prophesised in association with the return of Christ. However, this language of good and evil becomes detached from the wider corpus of Christian belief and theology. In its secular expression, it may attach the good to an abstract and normative account of "the people", who are defined in contrast to a range of others, both internal and external to the nation. Secular iterations might further echo the stratification of present, past and future through a sacralisation of the past and a dramatization of the future. The context of contemporary right-wing and far-right movements poses a series of questions about the relationship between belief and belonging, the acceptability of the secularization of Christian traditions and theologies, and the extent to which Christian communities can legitimately associate with right-wing movements. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:93c9ec14-1023-491f-bc0e-8c8f5528e6822024-05-13T15:02:40ZA posture of protest? The search for Christian identity in a post-secular society: between secularised eschatology and a sacralisation of historyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:93c9ec14-1023-491f-bc0e-8c8f5528e682EnglishSymplectic ElementsTransnational Press London2021van der Tol, MDCRowley, MThis article theorises ideations of "the people" in a comparative reflection on Latin-Christian theologies and typologies of time and secularised appropriations thereof in right-wing as well as far-right movements in Europe and the United States of America. Understanding the world in grand narratives of "good" and "evil" emerges from Christian eschatological hope: the hope of the restoration and renewal of the cosmos and the final defeat of evil prophesised in association with the return of Christ. However, this language of good and evil becomes detached from the wider corpus of Christian belief and theology. In its secular expression, it may attach the good to an abstract and normative account of "the people", who are defined in contrast to a range of others, both internal and external to the nation. Secular iterations might further echo the stratification of present, past and future through a sacralisation of the past and a dramatization of the future. The context of contemporary right-wing and far-right movements poses a series of questions about the relationship between belief and belonging, the acceptability of the secularization of Christian traditions and theologies, and the extent to which Christian communities can legitimately associate with right-wing movements. |
| spellingShingle | van der Tol, MDC Rowley, M A posture of protest? The search for Christian identity in a post-secular society: between secularised eschatology and a sacralisation of history |
| title | A posture of protest? The search for Christian identity in a post-secular society: between secularised eschatology and a sacralisation of history |
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| title_full_unstemmed | A posture of protest? The search for Christian identity in a post-secular society: between secularised eschatology and a sacralisation of history |
| title_short | A posture of protest? The search for Christian identity in a post-secular society: between secularised eschatology and a sacralisation of history |
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