Per-Erik Nilsson is Associate Professor in Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Unveiling the French Republic: National Identity, Secularism, and Islam in contemporary France (2017).

In this in-depth dissection of an important French identitarian far-right movement, Per-Erik Nilsson gives us a clear insight into how these anti-Muslim activists, misleadinglyclaiming to work in the cause of secularism, argue and mobilize in their frighteningattempt to carry out a religious cleansing of France.

• Preface1 Under Siege: Approaching Secularism, Populism, and Nationhoodin France2 A Green Cancer: The Construction of an External Enemy3 Collaborators and Traitors: The Construction of Internal Enemies4 The Real People: Identifying the True People of France5 Reconquista or Death: The Exploration of Strategies to Purifythe Nation6 Echoes from the Past: An Outlook on EuropeNotesReferencesIndex

Per-Erik Nilsson is Associate Professor in Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Unveiling the French Republic: National Identity, Secularism, and Islam in contemporary France (2017).

In this in-depth dissection of an important French identitarian far-right movement, Per-Erik Nilsson gives us a clear insight into how these anti-Muslim activists, misleadinglyclaiming to work in the cause of secularism, argue and mobilize in their frighteningattempt to carry out a religious cleansing of France.

• Preface1 Under Siege: Approaching Secularism, Populism, and Nationhoodin France2 A Green Cancer: The Construction of an External Enemy3 Collaborators and Traitors: The Construction of Internal Enemies4 The Real People: Identifying the True People of France5 Reconquista or Death: The Exploration of Strategies to Purifythe Nation6 Echoes from the Past: An Outlook on EuropeNotesReferencesIndex

Per-Erik Nilsson is Associate Professor in Sociology of Religion at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the author of Unveiling the French Republic: National Identity, Secularism, and Islam in contemporary France (2017).

In this in-depth dissection of an important French identitarian far-right movement, Per-Erik Nilsson gives us a clear insight into how these anti-Muslim activists, misleadinglyclaiming to work in the cause of secularism, argue and mobilize in their frighteningattempt to carry out a religious cleansing of France.

• Preface1 Under Siege: Approaching Secularism, Populism, and Nationhoodin France2 A Green Cancer: The Construction of an External Enemy3 Collaborators and Traitors: The Construction of Internal Enemies4 The Real People: Identifying the True People of France5 Reconquista or Death: The Exploration of Strategies to Purifythe Nation6 Echoes from the Past: An Outlook on EuropeNotesReferencesIndex