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The Christian Right in Europe
Du Mez Substack ^ | June 2024 | Kristin Du Mez

Posted on 07/14/2024 10:56:22 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Earlier this year, I read Gionathan Lo Mascolo’s edited collection The Christain Right in Europe: Movements, Networks, and Denominations. I’d initially intended on skimming a couple of chapters but ended up reading it cover-to-cover. The book is an essential resource for anyone trying to understand the global reach of Christian nationalism and connections between the United States and Europe.* Gionathan was kind enough to give an interview in which he discusses several of the essays and issues discussed in the volume.

Wondering how the Nashville Statement influenced Dutch churches? Trying to understand what’s going on in Hungary, or with Putin, the Russian Orthodox Church, and Russian Christian nationalism? Want to learn about a new organization, Faith in Democracy, which Gionathan has helped found to address this global challenge?

Read on…

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I think one of the reasons why conservatives in the US may not understand the intricacies of conservatism abroad is because we tend to project our own national experience and social realities to the movements there. For starters, every European country is distinct politically, linguistically and culturally, religiously (even if under the tent of Christianity.) etc…

Other points: the UK never had a “Christian Right” type movement that we’ve had and still has a monarchy.

The French Revolution was markedly different than the US Revolution in its aims and ramifications — so much so that our own founding fathers were alarmed.

Spain had its Civil War in the 20th Century…

We did not have a Nazi takeover the way Germany did (obviously) and the echoes of two massively catastrophic World Wars reverberate much differently in Europe (both East and West) than here…

For starters…

1 posted on 07/14/2024 10:56:22 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Economically* distinct from USA and from each other as well.


2 posted on 07/14/2024 11:02:09 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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There is no "Christian Right" in Europe.

There is almost no Christianity at all left in Europe.

3 posted on 07/14/2024 12:42:16 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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