CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Paxton, Gabriel Noah |
|---|---|
| Title | The Guardians of Christianity vs. the Watchmen of European Christendom: Persecution Narratives in American and Hungarian Christian Nationalism |
| Summary | In the growing tide of right-wing populism in Europe and North America, nationalism exists as an instrumental tool for demarcating spatial, cultural, ethnic and religious boundaries. In this operationalization of nationalist sentiments, elites have reinvented and framed common political discourses to advance a ‘unified’ understanding of what constitutes ‘us’ and ‘them’. This nationalist stronghold has permeated the discourses on immigration, foreign policy and even social welfare in the U.S. Similarly, Europe has seen nationalism take hold in the wake of the 2015 ‘refugee crisis’, with immigration narratives largely centered on the threat of Islam and the political and social instability thereafter of Europe. This thesis attempts to look at another narrative which has been instrumental for nationalist—more specifically religious-nationalist— claim making in European and American elite discourses, Christian persecution. Starting from a theoretical understanding of what constitutes nationalist and religious-nationalist discourse, this investigation demonstrates how Vice President Mike Pence and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán respectively assert an understanding of national uniqueness in their crusade to defend Christianity and European Christendom. |
| Supervisor | Miller, Michael; Wilson, Brett; Pasieka, Agnieszka |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/paxton_gabriel.pdf |
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