Book contents
- The Godless Crusade
- The Godless Crusade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Foundations
- Part II The German Churches and the Alternative für Deutschland
- Part III French Catholicism, the Rassemblement National and Laïcité
- Part IV A Faustian Bargain?
- Chapter 12 ‘A Nation under God’?
- Chapter 13 The New Social Cleavage
- Chapter 14 The Saviour of Christian America?
- Chapter 15 A Faustian Bargain?
- Part V Conclusion
- Appendix A List of Interviewees
- Appendix B Sample Questionnaire (Religious Leaders)
- References
- Index
Chapter 12 - ‘A Nation under God’?
American Civil Religion between the Wall of Separation and Christian Nationalism
from Part IV - A Faustian Bargain?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 March 2023
- The Godless Crusade
- The Godless Crusade
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I Foundations
- Part II The German Churches and the Alternative für Deutschland
- Part III French Catholicism, the Rassemblement National and Laïcité
- Part IV A Faustian Bargain?
- Chapter 12 ‘A Nation under God’?
- Chapter 13 The New Social Cleavage
- Chapter 14 The Saviour of Christian America?
- Chapter 15 A Faustian Bargain?
- Part V Conclusion
- Appendix A List of Interviewees
- Appendix B Sample Questionnaire (Religious Leaders)
- References
- Index
Summary
In Part IV (Chapters 12–15) the final case study of this book explores the relationship between right-wing populism and religion in the USA. It begins in Chapter 12 by discussing the historical background of the First Amendment, American civil religion, and the country’s history of white Christian nationalism and religious culture wars. Specifically, Chapter 12 shows how America’s civil religious tradition had historically been able to act as an important source of integration and prophetic criticism in American politics in spite of repeated challenges from white Christian nationalism on the one hand and secularist tendencies on the other. However, this chapter also explores how this integrative potential has been profoundly challenged by the rise of a new secular identity cleavage that increasingly superseded America’s old religious culture wars and prepared the grounds for the right-wing populist and identitarian politics of Donald Trump.
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- The Godless CrusadeReligion, Populism and Right-Wing Identity Politics in the West, pp. 183 - 194Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023