Nations under God: How Church–State Relations Shape Christian Responses to Right-Wing Populism in Germany and the United States
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For example, this article explored how Church-State relations in Germany and the United States have produced different incentives and opportunity structures for faith leaders when facing right-wing populism based on quantitative studies, survey data, and 31 in-depth elite interviews, and found that whereas Germany's system of benevolent neutrality encourages highly centralised churches whose leaders perceive themselves as integral part and defenders of the current system, and are therefore both willing and able to create social taboos against rightwing populism, America's "Wall of separation" favours a de-centralised religious marketplace, in whichAbout:
This article is published in Religion.The article was published on 2021-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 18 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Christianity & Populism.read more
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
TL;DR: Haidt as mentioned in this paper argues that the visceral reaction to competing ideologies is a subconscious, rather than leaned, reaction that evolved over human evolution to innate senses of suffering, fairness, cheating and disease, and that moral foundations facilitated intra-group cooperation which in turn conferred survival advantages over other groups.
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Cultural backlash: Trump, Brexit, and authoritarian populism
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain why voters and parties alike drifted towards authoritarian and populist attitudes in the Western world, and propose an explanation to why voters drifted towards these attitudes. But they do not consider the role of the media.
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Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World since 1776
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
TL;DR: The Righteous Mind as discussed by the authors explores how morality evolved to enable us to form communities, and how moral values are not just about justice and equality - for some people authority, sanctity or loyalty matter more.
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
TL;DR: Haidt as mentioned in this paper argues that the visceral reaction to competing ideologies is a subconscious, rather than leaned, reaction that evolved over human evolution to innate senses of suffering, fairness, cheating and disease, and that moral foundations facilitated intra-group cooperation which in turn conferred survival advantages over other groups.
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Civil religion in America
TL;DR: The American civil religion is not only rather "Unitarian", but also on the austere side, much more related to order, law, and right than to salvation and love as mentioned in this paper.
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A supply-side reinterpretation of the secularization' of Europe
TL;DR: This article proposed a theory of religious mobilization that accounts for variations in religious participation on the basis of variations in the degree of regulation of religious economies and consequent variations in their levels of religious competition.
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