This paper presents a textual analysis of election posters and programs of theright-wing populist party, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). The role of religion isexamined in these texts. A corpus of posters and programs from the period 2016–19 were utilized for this analysis. The study covers all state elections in this period: the German federal elections of 2017 and the elections to the European Parliament in 2019. Since election posters can beunderstood as multimodal texts, image research was conducted first. This revealed that only a few religion-related motifswere used on election posters. This was also the case for the imagery in the election manifestos. The analysis of the lexiconyielded different results. For both types of texts, religion-related lexicons referring to Islam clearly dominate compared toChristianity. The lexical analysis also shows that the subject of Judaism does not play any significant role in either type oftext. With regard to embedding in discourses, the context and metaphor analysis shows the references to religious issuesfound and delimit identity and alterity. In both cases, only the superficial and external aspects are referred to. Christianity,as an identity reference, remains completely unspecific, whereas Islam is used as a threat scenario. In not one case is thereengagement with the contents of faith. The central result of the study is that right-wing populist election advertising is notabout a real confrontation between Christianity and Islam. Rather, the election campaign focuses on the rejection of Islamand thus on the rejection of migration.