Crusades, Christ, and Christmas
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Abstract What is striking in the twenty years since 9/11 not only renewed attention to religion Western public sphere but forms this has taken. Suspicion towards Islam intensified. Narratives which West and are conflicting clashing entities have become entrenched. In Europe, anti-Muslim rhetoric reached fever-pitch far-right movements. gone largely unnoticed, however, Bible-use that can be found programmes, protests proclamations of groups actors. The British organisation Britain First fosters one example recent such Bible-use. Far from accidental or negligible, I argue contemporary may look banal even benign, it masks toxic violent attitudes Islam. This demonstrates way references come replace overt race Islamophobic discourse far right. a post-9/11 context, contend, where Islamophobia take extreme mainstream form, crucial biblical scholars identify function Bible stoking divisions drawing distinctions between Christian an Islamic other.
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عنوان ژورنال: Zeitschrift fu?r Religion, Gesellschaft und Politik
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2510-1218', '2510-1226']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41682-023-00148-1