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Chapter 8 - La République Laïque vs. La France Catholique

The Rise and Decline of French ‘Catho-Laïcité’

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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2023

Tobias Cremer
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Chapter 8 moves on to the French case study. As the nation with the oldest major right-wing populist party in Europe, a well-established electoral constituency of political Catholicism, and one of the strictest models of church–state separation, the French case study provides a unique opportunity to trace the historical development of the relationship between religion and right-wing populism. To study these phenomena, Chapter 8 begins by exploring how the historical antagonism between la France Catholique and la Republique laïque still shapes the relationship between politics and religion today, and how the hard-fought compromise between the two has recently been challenged by a return of political tensions surrounding religion and laïcité, in the context of the French far right’s identitarian rhetoric.

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The Godless Crusade
Religion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West
, pp. 115 - 124
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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