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A special issue titled "Religious Populism in Hybrid Media" has been published as an open-access edition in the journal Populism in Volume 8 Issue 1. It is available at the following link [1].

This issue features five original research articles from diverse geographical and religious contexts:

• Dayei Oh, “American abortion culture wars as religious populism: ‘Truth’ and ‘fight for truth’ as floating signifiers”;
• Silvija Vuković and Nina Krapić, “A Populist, Influencer, and Religious Politician: A qualitative analysis of Marin Miletić’s communication on Instagram during the Croatian election campaign”;
• Ihsan Yilmaz, Susan de Groot Heupener, Nicholas Morieson and Ana-Maria Bliuc,“Disruptive Signification in a Hybrid Media Ecology: Civilisational Populism in Pakistan, Turkey and Indonesia”;
• Ali Alsayegh, “The Epistemic Modes of Muqtada al-Sadr’s Charisma Production on Hybrid Media”;
• Feeza Vasudeva, “Political Deification and Religious Populism in Modi’s India”.

The issue concludes with an afterword by Katja Valaskivi and Johanna Sumiala (University of Helsinki), titled “Religious Populism: A Paradigmatic Mode of Address of the Hybrid Media Environment?”

The introductory article [2], "Rush Hour of Populists: Religious Populism and Hybrid Media," seeks to develop a framework moving beyond conventional approaches to religious populism (either as the politicisation of religion or the sacralisation of politics) and advance a framework to highlight its role in shaping collective identities through transcendencies within hybrid media environments.
 
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