Perceived Threat, Reactive Identification, and Religious Change: Right-Wing Secularization in Germany, 1999–2017

In this article, I integrate symbolic threat dynamics into a theoretical discussion of religious change. Specifically, article demonstrates how can lead to increases in salient collective characteristics among members the threatened group. To make case, examine and historical idiosyncrasies East West Germany. context Germany, find dramatic reduction activity right-wing between 1999 2017, as well strong relationship secularity fear foreign domination. Mediated by deeply atheistic history secularization is here presented reaction eastern identification that repeatedly emerges face cultural threat. empirically illustrate my contentions, rely on survey data from European Values Study (EVS) German General Social Survey (ALLBUS).