The contributions to this volume Immigration, Gender and Religion bring together empirically grounded and theoretically sophisticated case studies of populist responses to what are perceived to be the threats to national survival and sovereignty from ‘uncontrolled’ immigration. The demographic context – declining fertility rates and ageing populations – promotes the belief that high Muslim fertility rates are material evidence of an Islamic threat to the West, to national cohesion and particularly to the safety and dignity of the women of the host community. Consequently, gender plays an important part in populist ideology, but populist attitudes to gender are often contradictory. Populist movements are often marked by misogyny and by policies that are typically anti-feminist in rejecting gender equality. The traditional family with a dominant father and submissive mother is promoted as the basis of national values and the remedy against social decline. The obsession with women in the public domain points to a crisis of masculinity associated with unemployment, the impact of austerity packages on social status, and the growth of pink collar employment. Inevitably, religion is drawn into these political debates about the future of Western societies, because religion in general has seen the family and mothers as essential for the reproduction of religion. Christendom has been identified by populists as providing the ultimate defence of the borders of European civilisation against Islam, despite the fact that church leaders have often defended and welcomed outsiders in terms of Christian charity. Once more Christian Europe is the Abendland standing in defiance of a threatening and subversive Morgenland. This volume will be an invaluable reference for students and scholars in the field of political theory, political sociology and European Studies.

本书中的 "移民、性别和宗教 "部分汇集了民粹主义对 "不受控制的 "移民对国家生存和主权的威胁所作出的有经验基础的和有理论根据的案例研究。人口背景--生育率下降和人口老龄化--促使人们相信，穆斯林的高生育率是伊斯兰教对西方、对国家凝聚力，特别是对东道国社区妇女的安全和尊严构成威胁的实质性证据。因此，性别在民粹主义意识形态中发挥着重要作用，但民粹主义对性别的态度往往是矛盾的。民粹主义运动往往以厌恶女性为特征，其政策是典型的反女性主义，拒绝性别平等。父亲占主导地位、母亲顺从的传统家庭被宣传为国家价值观的基础，是防止社会衰退的补救措施。在公共领域对女性的迷恋指向了与失业、紧缩计划对社会地位的影响以及粉领就业的增长有关的男性危机。宗教不可避免地被卷入这些关于西方社会未来的政治辩论中，因为一般来说，宗教将家庭和母亲视为宗教繁衍的关键。民粹主义者认为基督教为欧洲文明的边界提供了抵御伊斯兰教的终极防御，尽管教会领袖经常以基督教的慈善方式为外来者辩护和欢迎。基督教欧洲再一次成为站在威胁性和颠覆性的Morgenland面前的Abendland。本书将成为政治理论、政治社会学和欧洲研究领域的学生和学者的宝贵参考资料。