White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism

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.

Autorentext

Marcia Pallyis Professor in Multilingual Multicultural Studies at New York University, USA and held the Mercator Guest Professorship in the Theology Faculty at Humboldt University-Berlin (Germany), where she is now a regular Guest Professor.

Inhalt

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