@incollection{2023:guillard:catholics_,
title = {Catholics and the Far Right in France: A Breach in the Dam},
year = {2023},
note = {This chapter is about the ambiguous relationship between religion and
far-right politics in France. The French Rassemblement National (RN)
is increasingly referencing Christianity in the context of its
ethno-cultural right-wing identity politics. Recently, the RN has been
joined in this endeavor by Éric Zemmour, a former journalist turned
far-right presidential candidate, who, although being Jewish, has
called himself "steeped in Christianity" and proclaimed that
Catholicism has a "birth right" to cultural hegemony in France.
However, closer inspection suggests that such references are driven
less by an appreciation of Catholic values, beliefs, and institutions
than by a desire to employ a cultural Christianism as a secularized
ethnic identity marker against Islam. This chapter investigates the
ambiguous rise of a new Christian right, how it relates to far right
identitarian movements and the right-wing populist campaigns of
Zemmour and Le Pen.},
booktitle = {The Christian Right in Europe},
pages = {199--212},
edition = {1},
author = {Guillard, Anne and Cremer, Tobias},
publisher = {transcript},
address = {Bielefeld},
series = {Edition Politik},
volume = {129}
}