During the last decade, the populist radical nationalist party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), has gone from being a minor party to become Sweden’s third largest party in parliament. In this article, the author shows how the category of Christianity has come to play a pivotal role in the party’s political identification. Drawing on Ernesto Laclau’s analysis of populism, the author argues that Christianity should be understood as a projection surface for fantasies of an ethnically and culturally superior homogenous nation vis-à-vis constructed national others. In a populist logic, Christianity has thus become a way to distinguish the SD from its articulated external (e.g., Muslims, immigrants) and internal (liberalism, feminism) political foes. By appropriating Christianity, the SD articulates itself as the guardian of true Christianity, the future savior of a Church allegedly hijacked by external and internal foes, and in the long run, the Swedish nation.

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“瑞典教会耻辱”：激进的民族主义和基督教在当代瑞典拨款

在过去十年中，民粹主义的激进民族主义党，瑞典民主党（SD），已经从一个小党成为议会瑞典第三大党走。在这篇文章中，作者展示基督教的类别是如何来发挥党的政治认同了举足轻重的作用。借鉴民粹主义的拉克劳的分析，笔者认为，基督教应该被理解为投影表面的种族和文化上优于单一民族的国家面对面的人构成的国家他人的幻想。在一个平民的逻辑，基督教也因此成为从其铰接外部（例如，穆斯林，移民）和内部（自由主义，女性主义）区分SD政治敌人的方法。通过挪用基督教的SD阐述自己作为真正的基督教的守护者，