Religious Populism: A Paradigmatic Mode of Address of the Hybrid Media Environment?

This Afterword concludes the special issue on Religious Populism in Hybrid Media Environments. The three perspectives of how religious populism re-sacralizes politics – mythologizing tradition, exalting charismatic leadership and ritualizing political life – are used to explain how the properties, affordances and logics of contemporary hybrid communication and related media environment intertwine, enable and enhance religious populism on a global scale. The Afterword argues that the articles of the special issue provide noteworthy conceptual and theoretical contributions for the development of populism studies with their focus on religious populism and media.