8 must-read race books like Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right by Randall Balmer

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Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

By: Randall Balmer

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Balmer, a Dartmouth University religion professor, delivers a reassessment of "the alliance between…

If you liked the race plot in Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right by Randall Balmer , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.93

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

For almost 1,500 years, the New Testament manuscripts were copied by hand––and mistakes and intenti… read more

Similar categories in Bart D. Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why book and Randall Balmer's Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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2. A Year of Biblical Womanhood

By: Rachel Held Evans

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Strong-willed and independent, Rachel Held Evans couldn't sew a button on a blouse before she embar… read more

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  • christian
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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3. Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

By: N.T. Wright

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

In Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, top-selli… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction

4. God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right

By: Daniel K. Williams

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When the Christian Right burst onto the scene in the late 1970s, many political observers were shoc… read more

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5. Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

By: Esau McCaulley

4.43

Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition

Growing up in the American South, Esau McCaulley knew firsthand the ongoing struggle between despai… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • race
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Prayer for leaders and criticism of their practices are not mutually exclusive ideas. Both have biblical warrant in the same letter."

-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

"While I was at home with much of the theology in evangelicalism, there were real disconnects. First, there was the portrayal of the Black church in these circles. I was told that the social gospel ha…"

-Esau McCaulley, Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope

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6. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

By: Anthea Butler

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelic… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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7. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

By: Philip S. Gorski

4.19

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A bracing examination of a force that imperils American democracy Most Americans were shocked by t… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"White Christian nationalism is a “deep story"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"For white Americans who affirm Christian nationalist ideology, “true Americans"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"Even as it’s become riskier for mainstream politicians to use negative dog whistles like “thug"

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

"It’s not that Christian nationalists have a different understanding of American history; it’s that they often have an incorrect understanding."

-Philip S. Gorski, The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

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8. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation

By: Kristin Kobes Du Mez

4.30

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

A scholar of American Christianity presents a seventy-five-year history of evangelicalism that iden… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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9. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • american history
  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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11. Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation

By: Jon Ward

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jon Ward's life is divided in half: two decades inside the evangelical Christian bubble and two dec… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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12. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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13. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley

4.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • race
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"

-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

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14. Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism—and What Comes Next

By: Bradley Onishi

4.33

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

Watching the eerie footage of the January 6 insurrection, Bradley Onishi wondered: If I hadn't left… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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15. Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

By: Sarah Bessey

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A nurturing and hopeful collection of practices to help an emerging generation of Christians reconn… read more

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  • christian
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"And yet religion in our modern era seems mostly concerned with systematizing theology, charting time lines, answering questions, and making God small and knowable. We have created a God we can regula…"

-Sarah Bessey, Field Notes for the Wilderness: Practices for an Evolving Faith

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16. The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

By: Jemar Tisby

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • race
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Throughout the course of US history, when Christians had the opportunity to decisively oppose the racism in their midst, all too often, they chose silence. They chose passivity. The refusal to act…"

-Jemar Tisby, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

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17. 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… read more

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  • american history
  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"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…"

-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

"This is not a book I could have imagined writing a dozen years ago. When an older couple from another town attempted to set up and lead a Bible club at my daughter's public elementary school in South…"

-Katherine Stewart, The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism

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18. Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States

By: Andrew L. Whitehead

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Why do so many conservative Christians continue to support Donald Trump despite his many overt mora… read more

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  • christian
  • history
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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19. Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

By: Randall Balmer

4.25

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Balmer, a Dartmouth University religion professor, delivers a reassessment of "the alliance between… read more

Similar categories in Randall Balmer's Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right book and Randall Balmer's Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right

  • american history
  • christian
  • history
  • race
  • theology
  • christianity
  • faith
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
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20. The Religion of American Greatness

By: Paul D. Miller

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Long before it featured dramatically in the 2016 presidential election, Christian nationalism had s… read more

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  • american history
  • christian
  • history
  • theology
  • christianity
  • politics
  • religion
  • nonfiction
"Justice requires neutrality, at some level."

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

"At no point has America’s culture been defined by its concern to “preserve"

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

"Nationalism is incoherent in theory, illiberal in practice, and, I fear, often idolatrous in our hearts."

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

"The Bible is universal truth, but our interpretations of it are always historically and culturally conditioned."

-Paul D. Miller, The Religion of American Greatness

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21. On Fascism

By: Matthew C. Macwilliams

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

As featured on NPR's "On Point" "The twelve lessons in On Fascism draws from American history and … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

17 Best history books like Bad Faith: Race and the Rise of the Religious Right by Randall Balmer

Transform Your Habits

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Bart D. Ehrman

3.93

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Esau McCaulley

4.43

Transform Your Habits

White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America

Anthea Butler

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

Philip S. Gorski

4.19

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Rachel Maddow

4.45

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Kara Swisher

3.99

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Jonathan Karl

4.28

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Erik Larson

4.24

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