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Published date01 August 2015
DOI10.1111/1467-9248.12222
Date01 August 2015
Subject MatterEditors' Choice
Editors’ Choice
The Editors’ Choice in this issue of Political Studies is Steven Kettell’s ‘The Militant Strain:
An Analysis of Anti-secular Discourse in Britain’. Kettell begins by identifying a very sharp
increase in anti-secular discourse in the public space def‌ined by the internet, especially in
the period since 2009, built around terms such as ‘radical secularism’, ‘militant secularism’,
‘aggressive secularism’ and ‘secular fundamentalism’. He then goes on to explain the rise of
this anti-secularist tide. In more general terms, it can be seen as a response amongst what
is increasingly a disempowered minority to a very real process of long-term decline in
religious life in Britain, (rather than a newly militant secularism). More specif‌ically, it may
be understood in terms of the Conservative Party’s attempt to mobilise what it sees as a part
of its core constituency. In both forms, Kettell seems to believe that, in the longer term,
its prospects are unpromising in what is increasingly a secular society.
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doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.12222
POLITICAL STUDIES: 2015 VOL 63, 511
© 2015 The Author. Political Studies © 2015 Political Studies Association

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