Polarizing Ideologies & Movements
Christian nationalism, America First, identity politics, and populism, held up against the actual texts each movement claims to draw from.
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- What Scripture and the Constitution Say About Christian NationalismOn the substantive religious question, mainstream Christian theology has historically been wary of merging church and state — and many of the most vocal…
- 'America First' as a Movement and IdeologyReligious traditions affirm that nations have particular obligations to their own people — that part of America First is unobjectionable.
- Identity Politics Across the Political SpectrumReligious traditions across the world converge on the principle that every person is made in the image of God (or its tradition-specific equivalent) and that…
- Populism on the Left and the RightReligious traditions contain both populist impulses (Mary's Magnificat, the Hebrew prophets, zakat) and warnings about populism's dangers (the crowd that…