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The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
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97/100Author:
Katherine Stewart
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date:
March 3, 2020
Stewart pulls back the curtain on the inner workings and leading personalities of a movement that has turned religion into a tool for domination, and whose influence now extends to every aspect of American life, from the White House to state capitols, from our schools to our hospitals.
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Throughout this fast-paced account, Stewart brings the reader into the halls of power, past and present, that have given us the world of 2020...making a clear case for how deeply Christian nationalism is intertwined with U.S. domestic and foreign policy.
The book, in essence an expanded and updated version of 2012’s The Good News Club: The Christian Right’s Stealth Assault on America’s Children, is a timely and useful introduction to the single most organized force in American politics today.
Though its advocates like to speak the rhetoric of abolitionism, Stewart shows us that this movement is suffused with a disturbing affinity for slavery. This is an unsettling echo of an old-time religion.
To write this book, Ms. Stewart crisscrossed the nation to attend important 'Christian nationalist' events. She interviewed dozens of leaders and connected a dizzying number of their organizations with one another. But she committed one major journalistic sin that leaves her wide open to fair criticism. There is no evidence that she offered any of the people she named an opportunity to comment on her findings.
