Normalization? German Theologians Respond to the Rise of the Far Right Christentum von Rechts: Theologische Erkundungen und Kritik [Right-wing Christianity: Theological Explorations and Critique], Johann Hinrich Claussen, Martin Fritz, Andreas Kubik, Rochus Leonhardt, and Arnulf von Scheliha, Mohr Siebeck, 2021 (ISBN 978-3-16-160005-0), vi + 234 pp., pb €26.95 Rechte Normalisierung und politische Theologie. Eine Standortbestimmung [Right-wing Normalization and Political Theology: Defining a Standpoint], Jan Niklas Collet, Julia Lis, and Gregor Taxacher (eds), Pustet, 2021 (ISBN 978-3-7917-3287-9) 280 pp., pb €25.19
The far right is on the rise across Europe. In Germany, the political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has had striking success in several elections, establishing itself in parliaments across the country. Although Christianity comes up in the programmes and the politics of this party, theolog...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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Reviews in religion and theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 30, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 18-24 |
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Theological Ethics
B Book review B Public Theology B Islamophobia B Political Theology B Racism B Far Right B Germany |
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| Summary: | The far right is on the rise across Europe. In Germany, the political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has had striking success in several elections, establishing itself in parliaments across the country. Although Christianity comes up in the programmes and the politics of this party, theologians in Germany have been hesitant to engage the rise of the far right. In this review, I present two publications that put an end to this hesitation. Although I cannot cover each and every chapter, I aim to showcase the key concerns and the key concepts of both publications in order to stress the contrast between them. Both theologically and politically, the stakes are high. The question of how to respond to the rise of the far right, I suggest, cuts to the core of the conceptualization of the identity of Christianity. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9418 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/rirt.14192 |