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Informationen zum Autor Eric L. McDaniel is an Associate Professor and co-director of the Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Politics in the Pews: The Political Mobilization of Black Churches (2008). Irfan Nooruddin is the Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Indian Politics in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is the author of Coalition Politics and Economic Development (2011) and Elections in Hard Times (2016, with T. E. Flores). Allyson F. Shortle is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma. She serves as the chair of the faculty advisory board for OU's Community Engagement and Experiments Laboratory (CEEL) and directs the Oklahoma City Community Poll. Klappentext What is causing the American public to move more openly into alt-right terrain? What explains the uptick in anti-immigrant hysteria, isolationism, and an increasing willingness to support alternatives to democratic governance? The Everyday Crusade provides an answer. The book points to American Religious Exceptionalism (ARE), a widely held religious nationalist ideology steeped in myth about the nation's original purpose. The book opens with a comprehensive synthesis of research on nationalism and religion in American public opinion. Making use of survey data spanning three different presidential administrations, it then develops a new theory of why Americans form extremist attitudes, based on religious exceptionalism myths. The book closes with an examination of what's next for an American public that confronts new global issues, alongside existing challenges to perceived cultural authority. Timely and enlightening, The Everyday Crusade offers a critical touchstone for better understanding American national identity and the exclusionary ideologies that have plagued the nation since its inception. Vorwort This book explores how the religious nationalist ideology of American Religious Exceptionalism (ARE) contributes to the American public's self-promoting, exclusionary, and sometimes illiberal attitudes. Zusammenfassung What is causing American public opinion to move into increasingly alt-right terrain? The Everyday Crusade provides an answer. The book shows that Americans can develop exclusionary attitudes because of their adherence to American Religious Exceptionalism (ARE), a religious nationalist ideology defined by faithfulness to national origin myths. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Myths, Gods, and Nations; 2. Who are the Believers?; 3. Who Dwells in His House?; 4. What Do We Owe Strangers?; 5. Evangelizing American Religious Exceptionalism; 6. Governing the Temple; 7. The View from the Back Pews; Conclusion....
