‘This collection shows that Populists don’t just instrumentalise religion: Europe’s conservative Christians feeling left behind by cultural change + are bargaining with illiberal political actors’. -Me on THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT IN EUROPE (UChicagoPress) churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/…

The Christian Right in Europe by Kristin Du Mez open.substack.com/pub/kristindum… ...revisionist view of ideological history isnt only highly problematic and anti-intellectual but...serves...agendas...that sustains Russian Christian Nationalism Gionathan Lo Mascolo photo...SPEAR Project

They're going the wrong way you utter dimwit.

In my mind sharing AI generated imagery from conflict makes you complicit in the denial of war crimes, because you're helping the side you're against deny future crimes by claiming side uses AI generated imagery of war crimes so can't be trusted.

Remember to account for turnout when the results of the European elections come out For example: if the RN gets 30% but turnout is only 50%, it means 85% of voters did *not* vote for the RN Them winning is awful and 15% far too much but don't make them look bigger than they are

In 🇸🇪 it’s the Greens and the Left that are gaining, and the far right Sweden Democrats doing worse than expected.

Am Ende eines langen Wahlabends: Europa rückt nicht überall weiter nach rechts: Nicht in Polen, nicht in Schweden, nicht in Finnland, nicht in Ungarn. Dort könnten Orbáns herbe Stimmenverluste Ende seiner Ära einläuten. #Europawahl

These have undoubtedly been the wildest 72 hours in French politics in my lifetime. Pretty incredible stuff. A 🧵

At the risk of repeating myself, here’s a quick summary all in one place of some of the upstanding geniuses in the new Dutch cabinet:

Really excited to dig into this book by Phillip Ayoub on BlueSky @payoub.bsky.social and postsecular_conflicts!

that's a surprise!

Italian daily La Stampa, saying in an article that a body that was found does not belong to "a boy" but rather to a "Moroccan" 😳🤮

Gionathan Lo Mascolo Dear Dr. Lo Mascolo: Thanks for editing this great volume. I've enjoyed reading "The Christian Right in Europe." I will cite it in my populism and religion book project and teach it in my courses.

Weil es hierzulande kaum bekannt ist: Vor knapp zwei Wochen wurde in Honduras Juan Antonio Lopéz, der gegen umweltschädliche Bergbauprojekte mobil machte, für die Rechte der Indigenen eintrat und die Sozialpastoral der Diözese Trujillo koordinierte, nach dem Messgang ermordet.

November 5th is just 17 days away. Please vote. Because Christian Nationalist pastor Joel Webbon definitely will.

SERIES: Gionathan Lo Mascolo & Kristina Stoeckl evaluate the rise of the of the Christian right in Europe and ongoing secular / pluralist challenges. Available on Canopy Forum now! ow.ly/rhlG50U3bOJ

BREAKING: The Archbishop of Canterbury, @JustinWelby, has decided to resign. Story to follow

As a very rapidly ageing country, Italy gives citizenship to Javier Milei, whose grandad was Italian, but not to a 16 year old who was born in Italy to foreign parents, has gone to school there, speaks the local dialect, & cannot imagine their future anywhere else... Suicidal.