White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism

How Did We Get Here?
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-13483-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 199 g

Reihe: Routledge Focus on Religion

How did America’s white evangelicals, from often progressive history, come to right-wing populism? Addressing populism requires understanding how its historico-cultural roots ground present politics. How have the very qualities that contributed much to American vibrancy—an anti-authoritarian government-wariness and energetic community-building—turned, under conditions of distress, to defensive, us-them worldviews?

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. The book ponders the tragic cast of the white evangelical story: (i) the distorting effects of economic and way-of-life duress on the understanding of history and present circumstances and (ii) the tragedy of choosing us-them solutions to duress that won’t relieve it, leaving the duress in place. Readers will trace the trajectory from economic, status loss, and way-of-life duresses to solutions in populist, us-them binaries. They will explore the robust white evangelical contribution to civil society but also to racism, xenophobia, and sexism. White evangelicals not in the ranks of the right—their worldview and activism—are discussed in a final chapter.

This book is valuable reading for students of political and social sciences as well as anyone interested in US politics.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pally, Marcia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Missionierung und Konvertierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.