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. |
From inside the book
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... gatherings, and strategy meetings of the activists powering this movement. I have sat down for coffee with “ex- gay” pastors determined to mobilize the “pro- family” vote. I have exchanged emails late into the night with men and women ...
... gatherings, and strategy meetings of the activists powering this movement. I have sat down for coffee with “ex- gay” pastors determined to mobilize the “pro- family” vote. I have exchanged emails late into the night with men and women ...
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... gatherings in Northern California, where agri-business men team up with pastors who have direct access to the Trump White House; to North Carolina, where Christian nationalist leaders recruit clergy to their partisan activism; to ...
... gatherings in Northern California, where agri-business men team up with pastors who have direct access to the Trump White House; to North Carolina, where Christian nationalist leaders recruit clergy to their partisan activism; to ...
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... gatherings organized by national activists to motivate pastors to get out the vote for Republican candidates. And we will spend time with some of the movement's most intriguing personalities as they cast aside their “unbiblical ...
... gatherings organized by national activists to motivate pastors to get out the vote for Republican candidates. And we will spend time with some of the movement's most intriguing personalities as they cast aside their “unbiblical ...
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... gathering. “Christians need to vote,” he 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 ...
... gathering. “Christians need to vote,” he 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 ...
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... gatherings,” and the like. Team members then set up a “Culture Impact Center” for church members to “give people an opportunity to become informed and, in turn, involved.” An unstated motivation behind the creation of the elaborate ...
... gatherings,” and the like. Team members then set up a “Culture Impact Center” for church members to “give people an opportunity to become informed and, in turn, involved.” An unstated motivation behind the creation of the elaborate ...
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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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