Contemporary extreme right groups seldom explicitly adhere to “biological racism”, yet racism continues to be key elements of the groups discourse and ideology. In what ways are such ideas represented as something qualitatively different than biological racism? At a time when liberal and secular societies in the Western world are undergoing monumental demographic and social changes and when religion is increasingly the subject of intense politicization and contestation, there is an urgent need to understand the role that sentiments, affects and antipathies generated by religion may play in producing racism and sympathies for extremist ideas. The project period will start late spring 2017.