Across parts of the populist Right, 'Christian' now names a civilizational identity—family, nation, the West—more than a set of doctrines, flattening long‑standing differences among Catholics, evangelicals, and others. Kirk’s saint‑like funeral tributes and politicians’ 'Christianity under siege' rhetoric illustrate an ecumenical identity politics. Critics mirror this, defining Christianity as hospitality to strangers, turning theology into brand signals on both sides.
— This reframes religion’s role in politics as identity mobilization rather than theology, altering coalition boundaries and the policies advanced in Christianity’s name.
Phoenix Contes
2025.12.04
85% relevant
The article’s core claim — that Christian faith is being repurposed as a political identity or instrument of power rather than a theological tradition — echoes and gives contemporary polemical texture to the existing idea that Christianity is functioning as an identity‑political force; it connects by diagnosing the same substitution of civic/religious doctrine with partisan signaling and coalition tactics.
Samuel Goldman
2025.12.02
85% relevant
Goldman’s argument—that American support for Zionism is rooted in durable, civic‑religious identities and philosemitic traditions rather than only recent evangelical eschatology—connects directly to the existing idea that Christianity in politics is increasingly an identity grammar rather than strictly doctrinal practice. The podcast supplies the historical narrative and scholarly voice (Samuel Goldman, God’s Country) that exemplifies this shift.
Rod Dreher
2025.12.02
86% relevant
Rod Dreher’s piece (via the cited UnHerd question and James Orr’s advisory role to Nigel Farage) exemplifies the political use of Christianity as an identity and mobilizing grammar rather than primarily a theological project — matching the existing idea that Christianity is being repurposed as a civic or civilizational identity in contemporary politics.
Gabriel Rossman
2025.12.01
40% relevant
The review documents how modern Paganism is less about doctrinal continuity and more about identity‑forming practice and invented tradition—paralleling the existing idea that religion now often functions as social identity rather than coherent theology.
Michael Ledger-Lomas
2025.10.07
100% relevant
Cardinal Dolan and Bishop Barron praising an evangelical firebrand at Charlie Kirk’s funeral; Crusader crosses at Tommy Robinson’s march; Rowan Williams’s counter‑letter defining the cross as 'sacrifice for the other'; Miriam Cates urging 'British Christians' to unite.