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The Rise of Christian Nationalism
W. W. Norton
May 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 0393060942
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Political | Non-Fiction Religion
Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for
Salon.com, has been covering the intersection of politics
and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during
the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to
understand how an administration marked by cronyism,
disregard for the national budget, and poorly disguised
self-interest had been reinstated, Goldberg traveled through
the heartland of a country in the grips of a fevered
religious radicalism: the America of our time. From the
classroom to the mega-church to the federal court, she saw
how the growing influence of dominionism-the doctrine that
Christians have the right to rule nonbelievers-is
threatening the foundations of democracy. In Kingdom Coming, Goldberg demonstrates how an increasingly
bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our
national life, taking us on a tour of the parallel
right-wing evangelical culture that is buoyed by Republican
political patronage. Deep within the red zones of a divided
America, we meet military retirees pledging to seize the
nation in Christ's name, perfidious congressmen courting the
confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy,
and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as
the solution to the country's social problems. With her trenchant interviews and the telling testimonies of
the people behind this movement, Goldberg gains access into
the hearts and minds of citizens who are striving to remake
the secular Republic bequeathed by our founders into a
Christian nation run according to their interpretation of
scripture. In her examination of the ever-widening divide
between believers and nonbelievers, Goldberg illustrates the
subversive effect of this conservative stranglehold
nationwide. In an age when faith rather than reason is
heralded and the values of the Enlightenment are threatened
by a mystical nationalism claiming divine sanction, Kingdom
Coming brings us face to face with the irrational forces
that are remaking much of America.
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