Week 11: White Christians and the Religious Right
Tuesday, November 4
Jones, Robert P. 2020. “Remembering: Christianity as the Conductor of White Supremacy.” White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Simon & Schuster. (Chapter 2: pp. 25-71.)
Thursday, November 6
Whitehead, Andrew L., and Samuel L. Perry. 2020. Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States. Oxford University Press. (Introduction: pp. 1-21).
Baker, Joseph O, Samuel L Perry, and Andrew L Whitehead. 2020. “Keep America Christian (and White): Christian Nationalism, Fear of Ethnoracial Outsiders, and Intention to Vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential Election.” Sociology of Religion 81(3): 272–93.
In-class readings
PRRI. 2023. “A Christian Nation? Understanding the Threat of Christian Nationalism to American Democracy and Culture”
PEW. 2022. “45% of Americans Say U.S. Should Be a ‘Christian Nation’”
Final draft of Congregational Visit Paper due Sunday, November 9, at 11:59pm on Canvas