Exploring religions in relation to populism: a tour around the world
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The authors explores the emerging scholarship investigating the relationship between religion(s) and populism and concludes that there is a scarcity of literature on this topic particularly in the non-Western and Judeo-Christian context.About:
This article is published in Religion.The article was published on 2021-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 30 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Populism.read more
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Populism in Latin America
TL;DR: The authors explored the phenomenon of populism in Latin America, taking into account the realities of inequitable wealth distribution, rampant corruption, the rise of indigenous movements, Latin American views on the state's role in society, emerging norms for civil-military relationships, globalization & trans-nationalist entities, and ubiquitous over-indebtedness.
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Civilizational Populism: Definition, Literature, Theory, and Practice
Ihsan Yilmaz,Nicholas Morieson +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of "civilization populism" has been defined by as discussed by the authors as "a political discourse which emphasizes the civilizational aspect of social and especially national identity." The concept is defined as a group of ideas that together consider that politics should be an expression of the volonté générale (general will) of the people, and society to be ultimately separated into two homogenous and antagonistic groups, "the pure people" versus "the corrupt elite" who collaborate with the dangerous others belonging to other civilizations that are hostile and present a clear and present danger to the civilization and way of life of the pure people.
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Religious and Pro-Violence Populism in Indonesia: The Rise and Fall of a Far-Right Islamist Civilisationist Movement
TL;DR: This paper examined the rise of religious populism in Indonesia through a study of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and identified the FPI as an Islamist civilizationist populist group and showed how the group frames Indonesian domestic political events within a larger cosmic battle between faithful and righteous Muslims and the forces that stand against Islam, whether they be "unfaithful Muslims" or non-Muslims.
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Religion as an Authoritarian Securitization and Violence Legitimation Tool: The Erdoğanist Diyanet’s Framing of a Religious Movement as an Existential Threat
Ihsan Yilmaz,Ismail Albayrak +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a state controlled religious institution used religion, fear, trauma, insecurity, grievances, and conspiracy theories to dehumanize a religious community, and presented it as an existential threat to the nation, the global community of believers and religion, by investigating the case of Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs' (the Diyanet) securitizing role under the authoritarian Islamist Erdoganist rule.
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Hinduism, Hindutva and Hindu Populism in India: An Analysis of Party Manifestos of Indian Rightwing Parties
TL;DR: In this article, an attempt has been made to distinguish between Hindu nationalism and Hindu populism based on an analysis of Hindutva parties' election manifestos, after a discussion on Hinduism's affinity to populism.
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The Populist Zeitgeist
TL;DR: In this article, a clear and new definition of populism is presented and the normal-pathology thesis is rejected; instead, it is argued that today populist discourse has become mainstream in the politics of western democracies and one can even speak of a populist Zeitgeist.
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Exclusionary vs. Inclusionary Populism: Comparing Contemporary Europe and Latin America
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify two regional subtypes of populism: exclusionary populism and inclusionary populism, and compare four prototypical cases (FN/Le Pen and FPO/Haider in Europe and PSUV/Chavez and MAS/Morales in Latin America).
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Between nationalism and civilizationism: the European populist moment in comparative perspective
TL;DR: This article argued that the national populisms of Northern and Western Europe form a distinctive cluster within the wider north Atlantic and pan-European populist conjuncture, and that they are distinctive i...
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Populists, Outsiders and Anti-Establishment Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors attempt to clarify the relationships among three contemporary concepts that are often used interchangeably or conflated in the literature: anti-establishment politics, political, and anti-authority.
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Populism and representative politics in contemporary Europe
TL;DR: Taggart as mentioned in this paper argued that recent developments in Europe provide a fertile ground for the emergence of populism and applied the definition of populism that I laid out in P. Taggart, Populism (Buckingham: Open University Press, 2000).
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