May 26, 2021

Christian Nationalist Nostalgia, Violence, and Resistance to Change (Re-release)

Christian Nationalist Nostalgia, Violence, and Resistance to Change (Re-release)

On the Nature of Fundamentalist Religions

In a re-release from 2019, Dan and Brad discuss how evangelicalism is a fundamentalist worldview. They draw on scholarship on global fundamentalisms in order to explain why evangelicals are so prone to nostalgia and so resistant to societal and political change. They also illuminate why fundamentalists are willing to use symbolic and physical violence to advance their cause. This episode is especially pertinent given the ongoing vitality of the Big Lie and Evangelical reluctance to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

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