CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Tranfic, Ivan |
|---|---|
| Title | A War for the Soul of a Nation: Religious Nationalism and Radical Right Mobilization in Contemporary Croatia |
| Summary | This thesis elucidates the role of religion and the Catholic Church in Croatia in the mobilization of a radical right social movement which has been growing steadily in the last decade. In the center of the movement's activities in different countries is the mobilization against 'gender ideology' as a civilizational threat attacking traditional societies. The thesis employs critical discourse analysis to trace the discourse on 'gender ideology' from the Catholic doctrines to the new movement as well as the political mainstream. It demonstrates how nationalism, Euroscepticism and grievances concerning democracy and sovereignty crystallize around the baseline nodal point of 'gender ideology' which serves as a symbolic glue. The Catholic Church is thus shown to have initiated and supported a radical movement in order to increase its social and political influence and battle secularizing tendencies in society. |
| Supervisor | Kovács, András |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/tranfic_ivan.pdf |
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