The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
By: Katherine Stewart
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Righ…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Christian nationalism exploits and intensifies inequality, and dominionism is its logical endpoint and the actual engine of the so-called culture wars."-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"Christian nationalism exploits and intensifies inequality, and dominionism is its logical endpoint and the actual engine of the so-called culture wars."-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"Are we a nation in which one brand of religion enjoys a place of privilege? Are we a nation of laws—except in cases where the law offends the feelings of those who subscribe to our preferred religion? Will we recognize the equal dignity of all of our citizens? Or are we the kind of society that heaps contempt upon those groups that our national religion happens to despise?"-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
"Are we a nation in which one brand of religion enjoys a place of privilege? Are we a nation of laws—except in cases where the law offends the feelings of those who subscribe to our preferred religion? Will we recognize the equal dignity of all of our citizens? Or are we the kind of society that heaps contempt upon those groups that our national religion happens to despise?"-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
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4. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
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5. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
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"In God we Trust", "one nation under God," "God bless America." These tidbits are not historical so much as they are rhetorical. Their tardiness precludes arguments that they somehow prove the foundin…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
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15. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
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4.14
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