1st Edition
White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism How Did We Get Here?
Introduction: Understanding Populism: A Historical, Cultural Approach
Chapter One: A Rubric for Populism
Chapter Two: America's Liberal Covenanted Republic: A short sketch
Chapter Three: The American and Evangelical Duress
Chapter Four: The Right-wing Populist Solution: Hunting Where the Ducks Are
Chapter Five: Right-wing Populism and White Evangelicals:
Chapter Six: The Militarization of God, Manhood, Politics: A Century in the Making
Chapter Seven: White Evangelicals and Minorities: "God was the original segregationist"
Chapter Eight: White Evangelicals Not in the Ranks of the Right
Concluding Thoughts
Biography
Marcia Pally teaches at New York University, USA, and held the Mercator Guest Professorship in the Theology Faculty at Humboldt University-Berlin, Germany, where she remains an annual guest professor.
"Trumpism and evangelicalism might seem like strange bed fellows. But Pally shows it’s a match made in heaven. Far from a mere marriage of convenience, the confluence of right-wing populism and conservative evangelicalism is a matter of cultural and political affinities with deep roots in American history."--Philip Gorski, Frederick and Laura Goff Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies, Yale University
"This accessible and compelling book reviews the contemporary relationship between white evangelicals and right-wing populism, showing the assemblage of ideas, concerns, and historical factors that brought this intersection into being. By setting this relationship in a broader historical context, Pally shows how this intersection is neither inevitable nor necessary." --Luke Bretherton, Robert E. Cushman Distinguished Professor of Moral & Political Theology, Duke University
"An illuminating journey down the rabbit hole of white evangelical support for far-right authoritarian populism in the US. Pally combines rigorous scholarship with clear argument to show that all seemingly secular politics is theological in a certain guise. A realignment away from both liberal technocracy and demagogic populism will require a radical yet traditional religious revival." --Adrian Pabst, Professor of Politics at the University of Kent and author of Postliberal Politics.
