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This diverse and daring interrogation of the roots and implications of rampant white Christian nationalism provides conceptual clarity regarding this toxic intersection of political extremism, racism, and religion. Discussing current events with philosophical, sociological, and political context, the volume is a call-to-action for all readers.
List of contents
Foreword by J. Kameron Carter
Introduction by George Yancy
Introduction by Bill Bywater
Opening Poem
Mary Magdalene Sings
Becky Thompson
White Christians and the U.S. Corporate Warrior StateMark Lewis Taylor
White Mob LogicKaren Teel
The "Promised Land" in Christian Nationalist Rhetoric: The Persistent Vision of Christianity as a Religion of Conquest Brock Bahler
Discipleship or Duplicity? A Christian "No" to white Christian NationalismAnna Floerke Scheid
White Christians Warring against Democracy: A Long HistoryJoe Feagin
The Pedagogy of Hegemony: A History of Christian Nationalism's Narrative Wars and School Dominance
Todd M. Mealy
Who do you say that I am? Laurie Cassidy
The Theological Irony of White Christian Nationalism: A View from the SouthLeah Kalmanson
Christian Churches in North America and the Imperatives of the Dialogue of Action Toward Restitution and Restorative Justice for Blacks, Latinos/Latinx, and Native AmericansMarinus Chijioke Iwuchukwu
Legitimate Political Discourse": January 6th and the Brutality of White TheodicyBiko Mandela Gray
Philosophical Ends and Theological Beginnings: The Logos, the Nigger, and Whiteness in American Christianity
Timothy Golden
Misogyny and the Stench of White Supremacist ChristianityTraci C. West
"Where Is the Love?": Christian Nationalism and the Politics of ExclusionKathy Glass
The Life and Death of Queen Elizabeth II: Defender of the Faith, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and Manifestation of the White Colonial GazeKimberley Ducey"The Order" of the Day: Lessons, Philosophical and Otherwise, from Childhood at the Heart of American Christian NationalismJames Garrison
Victims of the Cross: Violence and Apocalyptic Discourse in Christian NationalismSheldon George
White Solidarity on Campus and The Sin of NeutralityElisabeth Vasko
Can White Christian Nationalists and Donald Trump Be Overcome?Josiah Ulysses Young III
Revolution and the Soul of White ChristianityDean J. Johnson
The Hidden White Flesh of White Christian Nationalism: Anthropological Docetism and the Forging of Idols
José Francisco Morales Torres
On White Christian ViolenceAnthony Paul Smith
Closing Poem
ORIGINAL SIN
Michael Simms
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
George Yancy is the Samuel Candler Dobbs professor of philosophy at Emory University and a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. Yancy has published over 250 combined scholarly articles, chapters, and interviews that have appeared in professional journals, books, and at various news sites. Yancy is known for his numerous essays and interviews in the New York Times' philosophy column The Stone, and Truthout. He is the author, editor and co-editor of over 25 books, including most recently Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future and In Sheep’s Clothing: The Idolatry of White Christian Nationalism (coedited with philosopher Bill Bywater. Yancy is editor of the Philosophy of Race Book Series at Bloomsbury.Bill Bywater is emeritus professor of philosophy at Allegheny College. He has published in aesthetics and media studies including a book on the English art critic Clive Bell. His most recent work on social justice, education and democracy can be found in edited volumes by Solymosi and Schook, by Hanes and Weisman, by Yancy, and by Ducey, Headley, and Feagin as well as an interview with Noelle McAfee in the Kettering Review. He is a pragmatist in the tradition of John Dewey.J. Kameron Carter is professor of religious studies, English, and African American studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He is co-director of Indiana University’s Center for Religion and the Human. He is author of Race: A Theological Account, The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song, and The Religion of Whiteness: An Apocalyptic Lyric.
