Narrative Konstitutions- und Stabilisierungsangebote kollektiver ‚rechter‘ Identität in religionsbezogener Kommunikation

This contribution shows how collective ‚right-wing‘ identity is constituted and stabilized in religion-related communication. It becomes clear that the affordances of identityforming offers of identification are inherent in the construction of certain narratives. This becomes exemplary through the contouring of a right-wing populist (religiously colored) master narrative: Forced distinction definitions aim at a certain structuring of the perception of social reality. To make this happen, communication participants make use of the figure of anti-elitism on a synchronic level and, from a diachronic perspective, the vitalization of the idea of a heartland that stands in sharp contrast to the crisis-ridden present. It can be assumed that both moments of potentially (group) identity-forming offers of identification not least affectively favor the discursive receptivity and productivity not only of the master narrative, but also of corresponding right-wing populist narrative fragments. Although Gary Alan Fine’s classification of socalled „movement stories“ cannot be applied one-to-one to the material of the project, the re-reading of the material through the lens of differentiation into „horror stories“, „war stories“ and „happy endings“ once again sheds light on the different narrative possibilities and realizations of potentially identity-forming offers of identification in right-wing populist, even right-wing extremist, communications