Populism and religion: On the politics of fear

Our societies of fear go along with an increase of populist movements in politics. This article explains the basics of populism and shows how easily it joins highly likely political friend-enemy patterns. Anthropologically, we have to deal with parochial altruism undergirded by a static type of reli...

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1. VerfasserIn: Palaver, Wolfgang 1958- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
In: Dialog
Jahr: 2019, Band: 58, Heft: 1, Seiten: 22-29
RelBib Classification:ZB Soziologie
ZC Politik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Fear
B Terror Management Theory
B Populism
B Religion
B parochial altruism
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Zusammenfassung:Our societies of fear go along with an increase of populist movements in politics. This article explains the basics of populism and shows how easily it joins highly likely political friend-enemy patterns. Anthropologically, we have to deal with parochial altruism undergirded by a static type of religion. A further step deals with the relationship between politics and fear by referring to terror management theory and its insight into the relationship between mortality and fear. The concluding part addresses ways out of fear and in what way a dynamic type of religion helps to avoid scapegoating and political enmity.
ISSN:1540-6385
Enthält:Enthalten in: Dialog
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/dial.12450