The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious NationalismBloomsbury Publishing USA, 3. mar. 2020 - 352 síður The inspiration for the documentary God & Country For readers of Democracy in Chains and Dark Money, a revelatory investigation of the Religious Right's rise to political power. For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: this is a political movement that seeks to gain power and to impose its vision on all of society. America's religious nationalists aren't just fighting a culture war, they are waging a political war on the norms and institutions of American democracy. Stewart pulls back the curtain on the inner workings and leading personalities of a movement that has turned religion into a tool for domination. She exposes a dense network of think tanks, advocacy groups, and pastoral organizations embedded in a rapidly expanding community of international alliances and united not by any central command but by a shared, anti-democratic vision and a common will to power. She follows the money that fuels this movement, tracing much of it to a cadre of super-wealthy, ultraconservative donors and family foundations. She shows that today's Christian nationalism is the fruit of a longstanding antidemocratic, reactionary strain of American thought that draws on some of the most troubling episodes in America's past. It forms common cause with a globe-spanning movement that seeks to destroy liberal democracy and replace it with nationalist, theocratic and autocratic forms of government around the world. Religious nationalism is far more organized and better funded than most people realize. It seeks to control all aspects of government and society. Its successes have been stunning, and its influence now extends to every aspect of American life, from the White House to state capitols, from our schools to our hospitals. The Power Worshippers is a brilliantly reported book of warning and a wake-up call. Stewart's probing examination demands that Christian nationalism be taken seriously as a significant threat to the American republic and our democratic freedoms. |
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... say. “It's just hard for me to imagine how you can read the Bible and not see themes of social justice throughout,” he says squarely. “Or where you find America's current political landscape in a text that was finished eighteen hundred ...
... say. “It's just hard for me to imagine how you can read the Bible and not see themes of social justice throughout,” he says squarely. “Or where you find America's current political landscape in a text that was finished eighteen hundred ...
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... says, quoting a Bible verse from the book of Ephesians. “If we don't know that to be true after what we've seen in the last three weeks, I don't know what it will take,” he adds, referring to the recent fight to place Judge Brett ...
... says, quoting a Bible verse from the book of Ephesians. “If we don't know that to be true after what we've seen in the last three weeks, I don't know what it will take,” he adds, referring to the recent fight to place Judge Brett ...
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... says. “The members of your congregations need to vote. As pastors, you need to— I'm not going to say 'challenge them'; you need to tell them to vote.” Although Perkins never says the word “Republican,” there isn't the slightest doubt ...
... says. “The members of your congregations need to vote. As pastors, you need to— I'm not going to say 'challenge them'; you need to tell them to vote.” Although Perkins never says the word “Republican,” there isn't the slightest doubt ...
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... says, opposes public assistance to the poor as a matter of principle— unless the money passes through church coffers. God has challenged believers “to help the poor and widows and orphans,” but He expects governments to step aside. The ...
... says, opposes public assistance to the poor as a matter of principle— unless the money passes through church coffers. God has challenged believers “to help the poor and widows and orphans,” but He expects governments to step aside. The ...
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... says. One of them happens to be right here in Unionville. In fact, it is more than likely that's why this meeting is being held here in the first place, and not on the other side of Charlotte. “If we lose those three seats to ...
... says. One of them happens to be right here in Unionville. In fact, it is more than likely that's why this meeting is being held here in the first place, and not on the other side of Charlotte. “If we lose those three seats to ...
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3 Inventing Abortion | 54 |
4 The Mind of a Warrior | 78 |
The Ideological Origins of Christian Nationalism | 102 |
6 The Uses and Abuses of History | 126 |
Turning the States into Laboratories of Theocracy | 153 |
9 Proselytizers and Privatizers | 185 |
10 Theocracy from the Bench or How to Establish Religion in the Name of Religious Liberty | 209 |
What Religious Liberty Looks Like from the Stretcher | 235 |
12 The Global Holy War Comes of Age | 248 |
Epilogue | 274 |
Acknowledgments | 279 |
Notes | 283 |
Index | 327 |
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