Cults, Martyrs and Good Samaritans

James Crossley is Professor of Bible, Society and Politics, at St Mary's University, London. His recent books include Cults, Martyrs and Good Samaritans (Pluto, 2018) and Harnessing Chaos: The Bible in English Political Discourse since 1968 (Bloomsbury, 2016).

• Introduction1. Religion in English Political Discourse, 1979-2017: A Brief History2. Brexit Means Christmas, Christmas Means Socialism, and a Time for 'Homosexual Sex': Shifting Notions of Religion from the Frontbenches3. Muslims, the 'Perversion of Islam', and Christian England on the (Far) Right4. Brexit Barrow: Religion in Real-Time During a Summer of Political Chaos5. Manufacturing Dissent from the Centre: Cults, Corbyn and the Guardian6. Red Apocalypticism on the Corbynite Left: Martyrdom, Rojava and the Bob Crow BrigadeEpilogueNotesIndex

'Crossley shifts decisively to analysing the last decade of English politics and its intersections with religion - all in the context of Brexit, Islam and the rediscovery of a socialist left. Sharp analysis, insights aplenty, a major contribution to serious political debate in the UK'