Program

For three days, journalists will meet other knowledgeable mediators of information from different regions of the world in Innsbruck. In conversations with colleagues and other experts, visitors find out what is going on behind the scenes of the information on international events, which is often hastily and superficially conveyed, and can contribute.

Current social, political and cultural developments are the focus of the debates, from book presentations, exhibitions, doc-films and audio features. The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

The Journalismusfest Innsbruck opens a window to the complex present in which we live.

Haus der Begegnung

How The Religious Right is Reaching for Power

US and European Politics

Conversation

It’s not just in the US that evangelicals and ethno-nationlist Catholics are continuously expanding their network; in Europe, too, the Christian right is gaining ground. Right-wing populists and right-wing extremists invoke a pseudo-religious rhetoric. They are engineering a new clash of cultures, promoting “Christian nations” and targeting dissidents in the name of “Christianity”. Trump’s MAGA movement is also reaching Europe. Meanwhile, in Russia, the war of aggression against Ukraine is being justified on theological grounds. How do religious communities, especially the Christian church itself, react? How much attention does a secular civil society pay to all of this?

Katharina Limacher
Programme Manager of Vienna Doctoral School of Theology and Research on Religion (VDTR) focusing on the New Christian Right in Austria and Europe

Gionathan Lo Mascolo
Deputy Director of Faith in Democracy, editor of “The Christian Right in Europe. Movements, Networks, and Denominations” (2023)

Michaela Quast-Neulinger
Religious Studies Scholar and Theologian at the Department for Systematic Theology, University of Innsbruck

Moderator
Georg Löwisch
Founding head of the political feuilleton of German weekly ZEIT

German

Free admission

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Die Mitwirkenden

Wir freuen uns auf Journalist*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und NGOs aus verschiedenen Regionen der Welt.

Die Schauplätze

Die Veranstaltungsorte des Festivals liegen im Zentrum von Innsbruck. Sie sind zu Fuß gut zu erreichen.

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