«Religiosity» of the European Politicians: the Rebellion against political correctness

Abstract

In the article analyzed the role of the religion in European politics. Religious views of the politicians that expressed in public sphere help to see all complexity of the ideological shift that rooted in the populist wave. The religious rhetoric often means the turn of the European politicians to the new understanding of the peculiarity of their own country and in general the necessity to understand this issue. That movement could be called as identism or sovereignism but essentially this is the preparing of the radical changes in the European system where religion is a live element that turned to the future. The key to the new ideology that is alternative to the modern liberalism – the identity and overcoming of the absurd political correctness. The subject of the immigration appeared to be not the center of that ideology but one of the elements that served as a background to the creation of the alternative to the liberal order.

Keywords

• migration
• interreligious dialogue
• christianity
• protestantism
• orthodoxy
• catholicism
• church-state relations