RT Article
T1 Religion and Populism in the Global South: Islamist Civilisationism of Pakistan’s Imran Khan
JF Religions
VO 12
IS 9
A1 Shakil, Kainat
A1 Yilmaz, Ihsan 1971-
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1772595195
AB The fusion of religion and populism has paved the way for civilisationism. However, this significant issue is still unresearched. This paper attempts to address this gap by investigating the Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Islamist populism and civilisationism as an empirical case study. While Islamism has been explored in the context of Pakistan, this paper goes beyond and investigates the amalgamation of Islamist ideals with populism. Using discourse analysis, the paper traces the horizontal and vertical dimensions of Imran Khan’s religious populism. The paper provides an understanding of how “the people”, “the elite”, and “the others” are defined at present in Pakistan from an antagonistic and anti-Western civilisationist perspective. The paper finds that “New Pakistan” is indeed a “homeland” or an idolized society defined by Islamist civilisationism to which extreme emotions, sentimentality and victimhood are attached.
K1 Islamism
K1 Pakistan
K1 civilisationism
K1 emotive politics
K1 Populism
K1 Religion
K1 religious populism
K1 Victimhood
DO 10.3390/rel12090777