Abstract
The sovereignist vision of European integration is becoming increasingly present in the debate on the EU, although it is difficult to build a compelling narrative on European integration accommodating radical sovereignist claims. We look at the role religion plays in the construction of sovereignist narratives, taking Polish right-wing populist parties as our case study. In the findings we highlight the identitarian role of religion and the mechanisms of othering built on religiously referred antagonising tropes. We also show how religion helps to symbolically “thicken” the sovereignist narrative. Finally, we demonstrate the intrinsic tensions in this discursive construction, leading to inconsistency in sovereignist claims.
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Magdalena Góra & Katarzyna Zielińska
"The role of religion in sovereignist narratives of European integration: symbolic thickening and identity marking"
East European Politics, 2023.
