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(0)Andrew L Whitehead
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Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity. Whitehead reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church. He uses two key examples-- racism and xenophobia-- to demonstrate that the three idols violate core Christian beliefs. In furthering conversation about what Christian nationalism threatens, Whitehead explains how it can be faced-- and...
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Oxford University Press
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2020
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English
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Why do so many conservative Christians continue to support Donald Trump despite his many overt moral failings? Why do many Americans advocate so vehemently for xenophobic policies, such as a border wall with Mexico? Why do many Americans seem so unwilling to acknowledge the injustices that ethnic and racial minorities experience in the United States? Why do a sizeable proportion of Americans continue to oppose women's equality in the workplace and...
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Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.
American Idolatry reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church. Leading scholar Andrew Whitehead shows how the idols of power, fear, and violence can lead Christians to embrace expressions of the faith that harm their neighbors. He explains how these idols violate core Christian beliefs...
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Taking America Back for God points to the phenomenon of "Christian nationalism," the belief that the United States is-and should be-a Christian nation. At its heart, Christian nationalism demands that we must preserve a particular kind of social order, an order in which everyone-Christians and non-Christians, native-born and immigrants, whites and minorities, men and women-recognizes their "proper" place in society. The first comprehensive empirical...