White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism (Routledge Focus on Religion)
by Marcia Pally
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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 show more 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. show lessMembers
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Marcia Pally teaches at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and at Fordham University and is a guest professor in the theology department at Humboldt University in Berlin. She is also the author of The New Evangelicals. Expanding the Vision of the Common Good, among other works on religion, culture, and politics.
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