American Christian Nationalism and the Meaning of “Religion”
American Christian nationalism highlights the entanglements of identity and power as they relate to the category of “religion.” Like many populist movements, Christian nationalism emerges out of a power-devaluation crisis stemming from the diminishment of White Christians’ social and political hegem...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2022
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Method & theory in the study of religion
Année: 2022, Volume: 34, Numéro: 1/2, Pages: 64-85 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
USA
/ Christianisme
/ Nationalisme
/ Identité sociale
/ Structure de pouvoir
/ Nouvelle droite chrétienne
/ Histoire 2000-2022
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| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianisme et politique CH Christianisme et société KAJ Époque contemporaine KBQ Amérique du Nord |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Christian Nationalism
B definition of religion B Populism B Social Identity B Religion And Politics |
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| Résumé: | American Christian nationalism highlights the entanglements of identity and power as they relate to the category of “religion.” Like many populist movements, Christian nationalism emerges out of a power-devaluation crisis stemming from the diminishment of White Christians’ social and political hegemony, coalescing around the affirmation that the US is a properly “Christian” nation. However, an examination of Christian nationalism reveals that the meaning of “Christian” within Christian nationalism cannot be captured by traditional measures of individual religiosity that tacitly presuppose that religion is essentially private, belief-focused, and non-political in nature, but must recognize that it expresses a complex social identity involving multiple social domains (e.g., race, gender, political ideology) and, as such, contests of power. This analysis is significant for religious studies because it suggests that religion is better approached analytically as an active process of socially-shared identity formation than as a belief system or Gestalt of individual religious practices. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0682 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Method & theory in the study of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700682-12341533 |