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Chapter 9 - France’s New Identity Cleavage and the Rise of the Far Right

from Part III - French Catholicism, the Rassemblement National and Laïcité

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2023

Tobias Cremer
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University of Oxford
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Chapter 9 explores the recent re-politicisation of religion in France in more detail and finds that it was less linked to a revival of Catholicism than to the emergence of a new identity cleavage in French society, which itself is partly rooted in France’s rapid secularisation and Catholicism’s demise. Under the pressure of this new identity divide between cosmopolitans and communitarians, France’s political system has undergone a fundamental transformation, leading to a new bipolarity between the liberal-cosmopolitan camp of Macron’s La République en Marche and the populist-communitarian camp around the Rassemblement National and Éric Zemmour.

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The Godless Crusade
Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West
, pp. 125 - 138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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