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Religion, Politics, and Trump’s Christian Nationalism

Scott Hibbard
August 11, 2022August 17, 2022

It was not a Christian ethic that drew conservative Christians to Donald Trump, but rather a sense of political tribalism and a base transactionalism.

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The Sexual Politics of Ethno-Religious Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
July 21, 2021

What appears to be an isolated episode in sexual politics is, when placed in historical context, one surgent moment in a long contest over the identity and character of U.S. society.

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Race, Ressentiment, and Nihilism in White Evangelical Christian Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
July 1, 2021

Race is inextricably interwoven with Christian nationalism in the U.S. And racialized privilege—and various dynamics of racial animus—is an essential driver of the recurring waves of White evangelical Christian ethno-religious nationalism.

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QAnon, Conspiracy, and White Evangelical Apocalypse

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
June 16, 2021September 9, 2021

Ethno-religious nationalism—and the distinctive logic and dynamics of zombie nationalism—forms the connective tissue between much White evangelicalism and QAnon conspiracy ideology.

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Introduction to Zombie Nationalism

Series: Zombie Nationalism
Jason Springs
June 16, 2021July 30, 2021

The Trump-infused ethno-religious nationalism of White evangelicals is but the most recent upsurge of a political and cultural current that is traceable back at least sixty years, and indeed, much further.

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Weaponizing Antisemitism under the Guise of Care

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty
Joyce Dalsheim
September 16, 2019September 16, 2019

Suggesting that Jews are disloyal to the modern state of Israel is a form of antisemitism, thinly veiled in terms of caring about Jews.

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On Disloyalty and Dual Loyalty: Is President Trump a Brandeisean Zionist?

Series: Trump and Dual Loyalty
Shaul Magid
August 28, 2019September 16, 2019

Trump’s comment on Jews’ “great disloyalty” wasn’t accusing Jews of dual loyalty; in fact, he was suggesting Jews are not exercising dual loyalty enough.

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Beyond Aztlán: Latina/o/x Students Let Go of Their Mythic Homeland

Jacqueline Hidalgo
April 11, 2019April 15, 2019

Names are always ambivalent, contingent, and contested, and utopias are always unfinished works-in-progress.

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Beyond ‘Hearsay’ Or: Hearing and Learning to Say ‘Assalamu Alaikum’

Elizabeth Boyle
November 15, 2018November 16, 2018

Growing up in New York City after September 11, 2001, the narratives about Islam that were shared with me my entire life were ones of extremism and terrorism. It became apparent that my perception of Muslims up until this point had all been hearsay.

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The Shabbat Massacre Is Not Merely About Religion

Atalia Omer
October 30, 2018August 7, 2019

The Shabbat massacre is not only a hate crime. It is also the latest expression of racialized Christian construction of boundaries.

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