The relationship between religion, secularisation and the rise of right-wing identity politics in the West - with Dr. Tobias Cremer

Across Europe and the United States, right-wing populist movements are inseparable from our political reality, and identity politics increasingly govern political discourse. While the rise of Western populism has received significant scholarly attention, few have examined its relationship with religion and how right-wing parties use it as a cultural identity marker to advance their agendas. Dr. Tobias Cremer discusses this very issue in his book ‘The Godless Crusade’, in which he explores the rise of religious themes in populism in increasingly secular Western societies and the role new social cleavages play in that.