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City of Dignity: Christianity, Liberalism, and the Making of Global Los Angeles By Sean T. Dempsey University of Chicago Press This valuable addition to the literature on American religious liberalism ...
As one of Hollinger’s own students, Gene Zubovich, demonstrates in his superb 2022 book, Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States, this ...
The book traces the varied attempts of illiberal Christian thinkers not only to critique but to replace the American political order with a regime in accord with their theological beliefs.
And they worry that “white Christian nationalism is working just beneath the surface” of American politics, ready to trigger an outburst, as it did on January 6th. “There will be another ...
Talia Lavin’s Wild Faith: How the Christian Right is Taking Over America is an angry response to the rise of American Christianity’s far-right fringe, which she depicts as a theocratic menace ...
His book also offers insight into how a traditional Republican views the new American right. Its core argument is that Christian nationalism is fundamentally at odds with American liberalism—and ...
In my recent book “The Everyday Crusade: Christian Nationalism in American Politics,” written with fellow political scientists Irfan Nooruddin and Allyson Shortle, we demonstrate that this ...
I’ve thought about that Chesterton quote often during the age of Trump, especially as I’ve seen the “new” Christian right re-embrace the authoritarianism of previous American political eras.
Christian nationalists have seen Trump’s political ascent as God’s will, adopting the authoritarian and apocalyptic campaign of revenge against those who wronged him.
A wide array of books on race and gender were targeted, dealing with such topics as African American women poets, entertainers who wore blackface, and the treatment of women in Islamic countries.
Carter's final book, Faith: A Journey for All, reflects on his Christian faith. As he writes, “The issue of faith arises in almost every area of human existence, so it is important to understand ...