UID:
almahu_9949386199802882
Format:
1 online resource (132 pages)
ISBN:
9780429318146
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0429318146
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9781000069136
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1000069133
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9781000069099
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1000069095
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9781000069112
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1000069117
Series Statement:
Routledge focus on religion
Content:
Why did 81 percentof white evangelicals vote for Donald Trump in 2016? And what does this tell us about the relationship between Christianity and democracy in the United States? American Babylon places our present political moment against a deep historical backdrop. In Part I the author traces the development of democratic institutions from Ancient Greece through to the American Revolution and of Christian political theology from Augustine to Falwell. Part II charts the decline of democratic governance within American churches; explains the capture of evangelical Christianity by the Republican Party; and denounces the fateful embrace between white Christian nationalists and right-wing populists that culminated in Trump's victory. An accessible and timely book, American Babylon is essential reading for those concerned with the vexed relationship of religion and politics in the United States, including students and scholars in the fields of divinity, history, political science, religious studies, and sociology.
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction: American Babylon? -- Part I: Elective affinities: Christianity and democracy in Western history -- 1 Is democracy Christian? -- Prologue: "elective affinities" -- Christian ethics and democratic politics -- The four layers of Western democracy -- Republican democracy -- Representative democracy -- Liberal democracy -- The fourth layer: social democracy -- Conclusion: democracy and religion -- Note -- References -- 2 Is Christianity democratic? -- Ancient Israel: covenants and kings
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The early Christians: siblings and patriarchs -- Late antiquity: cities and empires -- The middle ages: popes and councils -- Reformations: communal and magisterial? -- Modernity: revolution or reaction? -- The modern era: dictators and democrats -- Conclusion: sovereign God or triune God? -- References -- Part II: Changing chemistries: Christianity and democracy in American history -- 3 Goodbye Tocqueville? -- Christianity and democracy in Tocqueville's America -- From moral consensus to culture war -- The anti-politics of the apocalypse -- America's churches: from little republics to big firms
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Hello Weber -- References -- 4 The Republican captivity -- Prologue: the "monkey trial" -- The problem: changing affinities -- Foreign policy: from progressive anti-imperialism to American exceptionalism -- Economic policy: from social gospel to CEO Jesus -- Social policy: from Hatrack to Roe v. Wade -- White supremacism: the fourth leg -- Conclusion: Babylonian captivity or Republican captivity? -- References -- 5 White Christian nationalism -- Why did (white) evangelicals vote for Trump? -- Evangelicalism and white Christian nationalism -- White Christian nationalism: a brief history
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Trumpism as white Christian nationalism -- Do white Evangelicals still support American democracy? -- Conclusion: can evangelical Christianity and liberal democracy co-exist? -- References -- Conclusion: the Constantinian temptation -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version: Gorski, Philip S. American Babylon : Christianity and Democracy Before and after Trump. Milton : Routledge, ©2020 ISBN 9780367331498
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.4324/9780429318146
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429318146
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