Back to a White Future: White Religious Loss, Donald Trump, and the Problem of Belonging

The 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States necessitates an interrogation of complex and interlocking constructs of race and religion, and the impact on racial and religious minorities. In this paper, I describe the social situation of “White loss”, which I understand to be t...

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1. VerfasserIn: Hills, Darrius (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2018]
In: Black theology
Jahr: 2018, Band: 16, Heft: 1, Seiten: 38-52
RelBib Classification:AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik
CG Christentum und Politik
KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit
KBQ Nordamerika
KDG Freikirche
NCC Sozialethik
weitere Schlagwörter:B Donald Trump
B White loss
B right-wing politics
B White evangelicalism
B race and religion
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Zusammenfassung:The 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States necessitates an interrogation of complex and interlocking constructs of race and religion, and the impact on racial and religious minorities. In this paper, I describe the social situation of “White loss”, which I understand to be the existential crisis of White Christians in light of myriad issues, including, a globalized society, a precarious economy, and the declining of racial and religious majority status. The first half of the paper discusses both religious and racial demographic shifts that intensify White loss, and the role that Trump plays in ameliorating these racial and religious anxieties. The essay concludes with a reading of Trump and White, evangelical Christians' authoritarian theological constructs through Howard Thurman's notions of neighborliness and estrangement.
ISSN:1743-1670
Enthält:Enthalten in: Black theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2018.1411750