Bulletin n. 1/2017 | ||
June 2017 | ||
Nelsen Brent F., Guth James L. |
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European Union or Kingdom of the Antichrist? Protestant apocalyptic narratives and European unity | ||
in National Identities , vol. 19, n. 2, special issue "Narrating European Integration: Transnational Actors and Stories" , 2017 , 251-267 | ||
This article examines Protestant Euroscepticism in its purest form by focusing on the apocalyptic narratives of conservative Protestant dispensationalists in the UK, Scandinavia and the Netherlands. It estimates the numbers of end-times Eurosceptics, summarizes their apocalyptic narrative, traces its lineage to the Reformation, and explores its use in debates on European integration. The article argues that analyzing Protestant apocalyptic narratives contributes to understanding some important roots of present-day Euroscepticism in sixteenth-century anti-Catholicism and Protestant distrust of the ‘Catholic’ continent. | ||