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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: Mississippi Free Press
1/26/2022
Christian Dominionism, History, and the War on Abortion in Mississippi
Mississippi's stringent abortion restrictions are the product of a decades-long, cross-denominational project of Christian Dominionism, the view that conservative Christians should control the institutions of society to advance what they consider "Biblical" policies.
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SOURCE: Salon
1/7/2022
Secularism: The Essential, Fatally Weak Guardrail of Democracy
by Jacques Berlinerblau
The framers of the US Constitiution failed to build in the protections against religious belief overpowering the rights of others or the security of the state that Locke and other political theorists thought were urgently necessary. This oversight might imperil democracy.
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SOURCE: Salon
1/6/2022
How Christian Nationalism Drove Insurrection: A Religious History of Jan. 6
by Kathryn Joyce
Religion scholars Anthea Butler and Peter Manseau offer insight into the convergence of nationalism and religious fervor that contributed to the widespread sense on the right that violence was necessary to thwart the great evil of Biden's election.
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SOURCE: New York Times
6/11/2021
Is There a Way to Dial Down the Political Hatred?
by Molly Worthen
Are fanatical political opinions a refiguring of the need for spiritual meaning in a secular society? What are the prospects for dialogue and coexistence?
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2/14/2021
History, Evidence and the Ethics of Belief
by Guy Lancaster
Untrammelled freedom of belief has been enshrined as an American civic virtue. The nation, democracy, and possibly the planet are imperiled without a collective commitment to respect belief only to the extent available evidence supports it.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/9/2020
The Persistence Of Creationism Shows Losing Could Make Trumpism More Extreme
by Adam Laats
Modern sophisticates were confident that the Scopes Trial marked the defeat and discrediting of creationism. Those alarmed by the denialism of Trump supporters about the election results should remember that the rumors of fundamentalism's demise were greatly exaggerated.
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5/31/2020
Trump and the Puritans
by Martyn Whittock
No one would ever call Donald Trump a Puritan. But the 17th century religious movement is a foundation of Trump's America.
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
5/19/2020
Fundamentalist Pandemics
by Juan Cole
What evangelicals could learn from "The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam."
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SOURCE: New York Times
3/27/2020
The Religious Right’s Hostility to Science Is Crippling Our Coronavirus Response
by Katherine Stewart
Trump’s response to the pandemic has been haunted by the science denialism of his ultraconservative religious allies.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3/31/2020
An Authoritarian Power Structure Brought Coronavirus to Liberty University
by Adam Laats
How one-man rule emerged at fundamentalist colleges and universities.
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3/6/2020
A Founder of American Religious Nationalism
by Katherine Stewart
Christian nationalism today is a political movement, and its primary goal is power. Its ultimate aim, formulated by R.J. Rushdoony, is to replace our modern constitutional Republic with a “biblical” order that derives its legitimacy not from the people but from God and the Bible – or, at least, the God and the Bible that men like Rushdoony claimed to know.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
10/8/19
Fundamentalism turns 100, a landmark for the Christian Right
by William Trollinger
Christian fundamentalists have become a politically powerful group since the movement’s foundation in 1919.
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SOURCE: The Nation
2-14-14
The Talibanization of Hindu History in India
by Jon Wiener
Indian history is in thrall to Hindu ultranationalists.