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- Title
Judeo-Christian democracy and the Transatlantic Right: Travels of a contested civilizational imaginary.
- Authors
Tjalve, Vibeke Schou
- Abstract
"Judeo-Christian civilization" and "Christian democracy" have emerged as darling far Right tropes, seemingly uniting radical conservatives in the US and Europe behind a single, geopolitical imaginary. This article presents a brief political-conceptual story of how "Judeo-Christianity" and "Christian democracy" became a rhetorical meeting ground for radical conservatives across the Atlantic. But it also sheds light on why deep, historical, intellectual, and ethnographic divides beneath, make those grounds highly unstable terrain. Divides not only between European and American traditions of liberalism and conservatism but also between the experiences and practices of state power that inform them. Beneath the slogans of Christian democracy espoused in such disparate contexts as Charlottesville and Budapest, move different legacies, memories, enemies.
- Subjects
CHARLOTTESVILLE (Va.); BUDAPEST (Hungary); JUDEO-Christian tradition; CHRISTIAN democracy; ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis
- Publication
New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central & East European Politics & International Relations, 2021, Vol 29, Issue 4, p332
- ISSN
2336-825X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/2336825X211052979