This groundbreaking volume explores the relationship between various Christian confessions, such as Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and national fascist movements across interwar Europe.

Chapter 1 The 'Holy Storm', Roger Griffin; Part 1 Orthodox/Greek-Orthodox Christianity and Fascism; Chapter 2 Fascism and Religion, Aristotle A. Kallis; Chapter 3 Between 'Clerical Fascism' and Political Orthodoxy, Maria Falina; Chapter 4 Sacralised Politics in Action, Valentin S?ndulescu; Chapter 5 By Cross and Sword, Anton Shekhovtsov; Part 2 Protestant Christianity and Fascism; Chapter 6 'On the Side of Christ', Thomas Linehan; Chapter 7 Completing the Lutheran Reformation, Lena Berggren; Chapter 8 The Nazis' 'Positive Christianity', Richard Steigmann-Gall; Part 3 Catholic Christianity and Fascism; Chapter 9 Catholic Modernities in Fascist Italy, Jorge Dagnino; Chapter 10 Catholicism and Fascism in Belgium, Bruno De Wever; Chapter 11 Political Catholicism, Crisis of Democracy and Salazar's New State in Portugal, António Costa Pinto, Maria Inácia Rezola; Chapter 12 Enacting Encyclicals? Cultural Politics and 'Clerical Fascism' in Austria, 1933-1938, Robert Pyrah; Chapter 13 Radical Catholicism and Fascism in Croatia, 1918-1945, Mark Biondich; Chapter 14 Catholicising Fascism, Fascistising Catholicism? The Blueshirts and the Jesuits in 1930s Ireland, Mike Cronin; Chapter 15 'Do not Lead us into (Fascist) Temptation', Béla Bodó; conclusion 'Clerical Fascism', John Pollard;