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The Role of Religion in the European New Right
“Pawel Bielawski is both a specialist in the history of religion and a highly knowledgeable authority on the so-called ‘New Right’. In his book, he addresses a little-known subject with method and precision. His work undoubtedly provides an excellent foundation for a substantive discussion of the topic.” — Alain de Benoist
The Right in Europe is traditionally associated with Christianity, and opposition to this tradition is typically equated with revolution. The New Right, however, as initiated by Alain de Benoist, is founded on different axiological premises. According to its proponents, the true bedrock of European civilisation was not Christianity but ancient paganism — Greco-Roman as well as Slavic, Germanic, Celtic, and others. From this standpoint, it is Christianity that constitutes the revolutionary force, having overthrown the authentic European pagan ancien régime.
The New Right represents an effort to reclaim not only the heritage of the past two millennia of the Christian era but also to recover much older strata of European tradition. Triumphant Christianity constructed itself atop an already existing, fully developed civilisation. For adherents of the New Right, the sacred text of Europeans is not the Bible but Homer’s Iliad.
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Methodology
1. Alain de Benoist and GRECE: A Pathway of Thought
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Childhood
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Adolescence
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Adulthood (to 1968)
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GRECE and May ‘68
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Summary
2. The Nouvelle Droite: The Evolution and Anatomy of Ideas
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The Ideational Evolution of the Nouvelle Droite
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Ideological Anatomy
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1. The Theological Level
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2. The Philosophical Level
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3. The Political Level
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Summary and Clarifications
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Is the Nouvelle Droite “Fascism”?
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Positioning the Nouvelle Droite on the Left-Right Axis
3. Paganism: The “Religion of Europe”
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What Paganism Is Not
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Cosmocentric-Polytheistic Monism
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World-Affirming Ethnic Religion
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The Hierophany of Nature
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God and Man: Ontic Closeness
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How to Be a Pagan (Today)
4. Christianity: The “Bolshevism of Antiquity”
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Theocentric-Monotheistic Dualism
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A World-Rejecting Universalist Religion
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Totalitarian Egalitarianism
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Western Christianity: The Result of Syncretism
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Summary
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Monotheism as the Germ of Secular Totalitarianism
5. The Nouvelle Droite’s Political Theology
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Desacralisation, Rationalisation, Secularisation
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The Idea of Progress: The “Faith” of Modernity
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The Ethnocidal Ideology of Human Rights
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Liberalism: The Negation of Democracy
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America: Anti-Europe
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Modernity: Secularised Christianity
6. The Nouvelle Droite and Islam
7. The Nouvelle Droite and Related Currents
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The Nouvelle Droite and French Integral Nationalism
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The Nouvelle Droite and Integral Traditionalism
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The Nouvelle Droite and Dependism
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The Nouvelle Droite and Third Positionism
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The Nouvelle Droite and the Fourth Political Theory
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Conclusion
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Bibliography
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