On Christian Nationalism

Critical and Theological Perspectives
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-80566-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right

Since the January 6, 2021 coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol, Christian nationalism has widely been called the “greatest threat to democracy in the United States.” Yet academics and activists present many conflicting definitions and solutions. On Christian Nationalism: Critical and Theological Perspectives features an array of scholarly essays on Christian nationalism, offering innovative exploration of topics including: definitions and historical context, current trends in the United States (including intersections with racism, sexism, antisemitism and Islamophobia), comparative phenomena abroad, and practical ways to address the problem theologically or politically. An important book at a time of rising Christian far-right mobilization and urgent need for a deeper theoretical analysis, On Christian Nationalism pushes the conversation further and explores new vantage points. The book will be of interest to those seeking a fuller, richer, and more complex understanding of Christian nationalism, including scholars of religious and political movements, as well as others (activists, pastors, journalists) with a concerned focus in the area.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gides, David M.

Braune, Joan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. “Whose House?”: Christian Nationalism, January 6, and Political Investment in Whiteness 2. How Religious Activists Framed “Christian Nationalism” as a Political Category 3. Christian Nationalism: A Theological Social Imaginary Rooted in the Past and with Global Expansion 4. The “White” in White Christian Nationalism 5. Appropriation of Tradition as Regression and Transgression: Catholic Fascist Movements and U.S. Christian Nationalism 6. A Fifth Column: New Trends in White Christian Nationalist Antisemitism 7. From Stitching Seams to Shooting Sinners: A Christian Nationalist Power Couple's Strategic Gendered Rhetoric 8. Sex and the Supremacy of Christ: Sex and Romance in Christian Nationalism 9. “Marxists Want to Destroy the Traditional (Christian) Brazilian Family”: Understanding the Legitimization of Cultural Marxism Conspiracy Theory in Brazil 10. Messianic Ruscism: Christian Nationalism and the Lure of Putin’s Russkii Mir 11. Building a Nation of Fear: Islamophobia and the White Christian Identity 12. Christian Nationalism Among the Nationalisms: A Contribution from Comparative Political Theory 13. Can Christian Anti-Nationalism Live?: A Reflection on Ezekiel’s Valley of the Dry Bones 14. Christian Nationalism, Racism, and Weaponized Gender 15. Back Into the Fold: A Sociological and Theological Analysis of US Christian Nationalism and the Deutsche Christen, and the Hope for Reintegration 16. Dominionism in the Trumpocene: Toward a Biblical Hermeneutic of Resistance

Über Autor(innen)

David M. Gides is Professor of Theology at the University of Providence in Great Falls, Montana. He is the author of Pacificism, Just War, and Tyrannicide: Bonhoeffer’s Church-World Theology and His Changing Forms of Political Thinking and Involvement (2012) and editor of Uncivil Disobedience: Theological Perspectives (2023).

Joan Braune is Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University, and works in Critical Theory and Critical Hate Studies. Her previous books include Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope (Routledge 2024) and The Ethics of Researching the Far Right: Critical Approaches and Reflections (2024).