• Home
  • Latest Writing
  • About
  • Book
  • Contact
Menu

KEN CHITWOOD

Religion | Reporting | Public Theology
  • Home
  • Latest Writing
  • About
  • Book
  • Contact
“The person who knows only one religion, knows none”
— Max Müller

Photo by Ken Chitwood. Berlin, Germany

Is The Christian Right Coming For Europe?

June 5, 2025

If you’re anything like me, you pay attention when an e-mail is marked “URGENT!!” 

The particular e-mail I have in mind carried a subject line that was direct and equally attention-grabbing: “Christian nationalism is coming for Europe.”

The content was a single link, to an article written by United States journalist Katherine Stewart for The New Republic on the rise of the Christian Right in the United Kingdom. In it, Stewart tells of how she believes a form of hyper-patriarchal, homophobic and nationalistic Christianity often associated with evangelicals in the US is gaining a beachhead in the UK. The developments there, she writes, “are like a window on the American past. 

“This is how things must have looked before the antidemocratic reaction really took hold,” she wrote. 

As a correspondent covering European Christians and as a scholar teaching religion in Germany, I’ve tracked some of the developments, institutions and movements Stewart cites. While rumors of the Christian right’s rise in Europe need to be taken seriously, it is also vitally important that the careful observer of religion take note of some of the complexities that have shaped the Christian right’s contours in ways distinct from, if related to, the forms we see taking hold in the U.S. 

Learn more
In #MissedInReligion, Religion and Culture, Religion, Religion News, Religious Literacy Tags Christian right, Christian nationalism, Europe, Christian right in Europe, What you missed without religion class, Patheos, European Christians, European Christianity, Katherine Stewart
Comment
Latest Writing RSS
Name *
Thank you!

Fresh Tweets

Tweets by kchitwood

Latest Writing RSS

RELIGION | REPORTING | PUBLIC THEOLOGY