White evangelicals and right-wing populism : how did we get here?
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White evangelicals and right-wing populism : how did we get here?
（Routledge focus on religion）（Routledge focus）
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
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
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