To address the entanglement of populism and religion in Finland (and outside Finland), we propose to study it through hegemony rather than through party politics. We explore populism from an anti-essentialist and heuristic perspective, where populist politics take a particular form (c.f. Palonen 2020). On this view, the contents of politics can change rapidly, and movements can fluidly adopt different religious perspectives, thus generating a polarising logic (c.f. Palonen 2025), and culture-war argumentation. We argue that this Gramscian-Althusserian account of hegemony will be particularly fruitful in analyzing the entanglement of the contemporary far-right and populist politics with religion in Finland. Even while the religious membership has been steadily decreasing, 61 percent of the population were members of the Evangelic Lutheran Church in Finland (ELCF) at the end of 2024. The attendance in religious service is low. Church has an important role in public life and members of the ELCF take roles in the society and many are active in politics in several parties. The discourse of homeland, belief and patriotism have dominated politics on the right - and the Lutheran church was very important for the war effort in WWII. Since the 1960s and 1970s inclusivity and diversity became key popular demands. ELCF has had female pastors from 1988 onward, and in 2010 the first female bishop was elected. However, the female ministry and LGTBQI+ issues have polarized members of the church, so that some members of Lutheran church some take part in the revival movements that exist inside the Lutheran church as minority groups. The movements have traditionally formed their own public sphere, and also formed stricter communities of control. Currently far-right and culture war argumentation has been spreading in these groups. In more explicit terms, some Finnish politicians have also been engaging with the global, networked Transnational New Right, such as the Trump regime.