religious right

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  6/11/2023
  

  Pat Robertson Helped Make Intolerance a Permanent Plank in the Republican Platform

  by Anthea Butler

  Pat Robertson lived at the intersection of public piety, apocalyptic rhetoric, and the pursuit of profit, and did as much as anyone to make the vilifiation of opponents as threats to the moral fiber of the nation a part of conservative politics. 

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• SOURCE: Vice
  3/21/2023
  

  Leaked Emails Show Christian Nationalist Anti-Trans "Holy War"

  “Stopping the existence of transgender people and the acceptance of trans people in the public sphere is to them some sort of religious imperative,” according to historian Thomas Lecaque. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/14/2023
  

  DeSantis Knows Path to Victory Runs Through Right-Wing Churches

  by Katherine Stewart

  Ron DeSantis's efforts to outflank Donald Trump to win the allegiance of Christian nationalists will determine whether he can become the GOP nominee. The lengths he's gone to already to court that constituency should scare supporters of democracy. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  12/21/2022
  

  Will MAGA Be the Last Straw for Conservative Jews' Partnership with the Christian Right?

  by Eric Alterman

  Since the 1970s, an alliance between Christian and Jewish conservatives has been brokered over mutual support for Israel's occupation and settlement of the West Bank. Are changing attitudes toward the occupation among American Jews and the naked antisemitism of the MAGA right breaking the alliance? 

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• SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
  11/8/2022
  

  Who Is a Christian Nationalist?

  by Samuel L. Perry and Andrew L. Whitehead

  New survey data says that the growing Christian Nationalist movement is broader than previously believed, and a potential political force in many places. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  8/23/2022
  

  The Growth of the Right-Wing Sect Advancing Christian Nationalism

  Beneath broadly held notions of Christian nationalism lies a distinct theology. If you hear "spiritual warfare" in political speech, you're hearing the New Apostolic Reformation—though its adherents are secretive about it. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  8/9/2022
  

  Theocracy Now! The Forgotten Influence of L. Brent Bozell on the Right

  Long overshadowed by compatriot (and brother-in-law) William F. Buckley, Bozell's aggressive advocacy of theocratic reaction was a key wellspring of resurgent Christian nationalism, particularly its Catholic varieties. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/5/2022
  

  Trump Has Mainstreamed Christian Nationalism, Despite its History of Violence

  by Samuel Perry

  The Trump administration and the current wave of MAGA candidates have openly embraced Christian nationalist themes that were once confined to the far-right and white supremacist fringe. It's vital that the historical violence associated with these ideas is not forgotten. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2022
  

  Katherine Stewart Joins Jane Coaston to Discuss the Rise of Christian Nationalism

  "This is not a new movement. It long preceded Trump. But the ideology is just becoming much more widespread as the movement has seized control, I believe, of the Republican Party."

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• SOURCE: Righting America
  8/4/2022
  

  Kathleen Wellman on How the Religious Right Hijacked History

  "These textbooks, unlike the work of historians, dismisses much of human history and denigrates most human accomplishments. Only human efforts undertaken to support 'biblical truth,' meaning evangelical Protestantism, are godly and have any value; all others reflect sinful 'humanism'."

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  7/22/2022
  

  "They Want Your Children!": Right-Wing School Panics Seek to Repeal Modernity

  by Rick Perlstein

  "Reactionary panics about what children learn in school are about as old as time. And they won’t ever go away."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/18/2022
  

  The Christian Right's History is Bad Scholarship, But Great SCOTUS Lobbying

  by Lauren R. Kerby

  Two consequential court rulings hinged on historical interpretation of abortion and gun rights. The court's majority borrowed this history from the religious right's campaign to craft a historical narrative to justify white Protestant nationalism.

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• SOURCE: Freethinker
  6/14/2022
  

  Is the Right Now Post-Religious? If Only!

  by Jacques Berlinerblau

  A high-profile op-ed by Nate Hochman obfuscates the continued significance of strains of Christian nationalism to the rising far right and falsely claims this movement is a secular one. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/8/2022
  

  How the Evangelical Movement Embraced the Abortion Issue

  Kristin Kobes Du Mez discusses how Evangelical Christians came to drive the abortion debate in the US in the context of a backlash against feminism and a growing infrastructure of conservative voter mobilization.

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  3/28/2022
  

  Hawley's Attacks on KBJ Part of Long History of Politicizing Child Abuse Panics

  Historian Paul Renfro explains the rising fears of child abduction in the 1980s and the way those fears have been used politically. 

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• SOURCE: Vanity Fair
  1/24/2022
  

  The Rise and Fall of Jerry Falwell Jr. at Liberty U.

  The ousted leader speaks to reporter Gabriel Sherman about the scandal and meltdown that ended his leadership of an evangelical empire. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  1/10/2022
  

  The Shock Troops of the Next Big Lie

  by Katherine Stewart

  A historian of the religious right argues that the movement has recently integrated the Trumpist myth of stolen elections into its political mobilization of evangelical pastors. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  9/17/2021
  

  "The Eyes of Tammy Faye": When the GOP Got in Bed with the Christian Right

  The scandals involving the PTL television ministry of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker allowed Jerry Falwell to expand the inluence of the Moral Majority and connect the religious right more firmly to the Republican Party. A new film highlights that moment. 

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• SOURCE: Current
  8/18/2021
  

  Megachurches like John MacArthur's Led Evangelical Resistance to COVID Mandates

  by John Fea

  Historian John Fea rounds up recent writing on the role of star pastors in directing some evangelical churches toward resistance to pandemic measures while other churches engaged with meeting their members' health needs. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/9/2021
  

  The Connection Between Conservative Christianity and Fast Food Franchises

  by Marcia Chatelain

  Many fast food chains have roots in two pillars of 20th-century conservatism: Christianity and free markets.