White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism: How Did We Get Here?

ISBN-13: 9781032134833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 140 str.

Marcia Pally

Opis

How did America’s white evangelicals, from often progressive history, come to right-wing populism? Readers will gain an understanding of populism and of the socio-political and religious history from which populism draws its us-them policies and worldview.

Recenzje

"Trumpism and evangelicalism might seem like strange bed fellows. But Pally shows it’s a match made in heaven. Far from a mere marriage of convenience, the confluence of right-wing populism and conservative evangelicalism is a matter of cultural and political affinities with deep roots in American history."--Philip Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies, Yale University

"This accessible and compelling book reviews the contemporary relationship between white evangelicals and right-wing populism, showing the assemblage of ideas, concerns, and historical factors that brought this intersection into being. By setting this relationship in a broader historical context, Pally shows how this intersection is neither inevitable nor necessary." --Luke Bretherton, Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Professor of Moral & Political Theology, Duke University

"An illuminating journey down the rabbit hole of white evangelical support for far-right authoritarian populism in the US. Pally combines rigorous scholarship with clear argument to show that all seemingly secular politics is theological in a certain guise. A realignment away from both liberal technocracy and demagogic populism will require a radical yet traditional religious revival." --Adrian Pabst, Professor of Politics at the University of Kent and author of Postliberal Politics.

Spis treści

Introduction: Understanding Populism: A Historical, Cultural Approach, 1: A Rubric for Populism, 2: America's Liberal Covenanted Republic: A Short Sketch, 3: The American and Evangelical Duress, 4: The Right-wing Populist Solution: Hunting Where the Ducks Are, 5: Right-wing Populism and White Evangelicals: Not Unifactorial, Not a Faustian Bargain, 6: The Militarization of God, Manhood, Politics: A Century in the Making, 7: White Evangelicals and Minorities: "God was the original segregationist", 8: White Evangelicals Not in the Ranks of the Right, Concluding Thoughts

O autorze

Marcia Pally teaches at New York University, USA, and held the Mercator Guest Professorship in the Theology Faculty at Humboldt University-Berlin, Germany, where she remains an annual guest professor.