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From Megyn Kelly's claim that Jesus is white to former President Trump's claim that he is the “chosen one” or the “King of Israel,” there is serious trouble in paradise. Contemporary manifestations of white Christian nationalism are deeply entangled in political issues from women’s political rights over their own bodies to the rejection of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Carrying Christian signs and crosses, protestors at the Capitol insurrection on January 6th were not only fighting with a sense of white nationalist duty but fighting with a religious zeal, making this a pressing moment in the current time to which this volume speaks.

This edited collection invites scholars share frustration, anger, interrogation, and conceptual clarity with readers regarding this toxic form of Christianity that fights not in the name of love, but in the name of political domination and out of deep fear and hatred. Attention is also brought to Christianity’s counter-voice, one predicated upon love, and its effectiveness to resist not just deep political pro-white forces at work, but also its capacity to focus emphasis upon Christian love. The text is designed to speak to the contemporary moment with respect to the explicit and implicit ways in which white nationalism and white Christianity continue to be entangled and reinforce one another. Contributors are asked to articulate what is behind this racially, politically, ideologically, psychically charged whiteness of Christianity in the US, and to articulate what is beyond the whiteness of Christianity for both Christians and non-Christians alike concerned with the rise of white Christian nationalism.



Trade Review

In Sheep’s Clothing is a collection of compelling essays that dig at the roots of white Christian nationalism. Especially in this threatening moment of American history, with Christianity occupying center stage, George Yancy and Bill Bywater have drawn together well-researched, intelligent resources that revolutionary lovers of justice can turn to repeatedly for moral and political wisdom. I know I will.

-- Carter Heyward, Professor Emerita of Theology, Episcopal Divinity School, and author of The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism: A Call to Action

Table of Contents

Foreword by J. Kameron Carter

Introduction by George Yancy

Introduction by Bill Bywater

Opening Poem

Mary Magdalene Sings

Becky Thompson

  1. White Christians and the U.S. Corporate Warrior State

Mark Lewis Taylor

  1. White Mob Logic

Karen Teel

  1. The “Promised Land” in Christian Nationalist Rhetoric: The Persistent Vision of Christianity as a Religion of Conquest

Brock Bahler

  1. Discipleship or Duplicity? A Christian “No” to white Christian Nationalism

Anna Floerke Scheid

  1. White Christians Warring against Democracy: A Long History

Joe Feagin

  1. The Pedagogy of Hegemony: A History of Christian Nationalism’s

Narrative Wars and School Dominance

Todd M. Mealy

  1. Who do you say that I am?

Laurie Cassidy

  1. The Theological Irony of White Christian Nationalism: A View from the South

Leah Kalmanson

  1. Christian Churches in North America and the Imperatives of the Dialogue of Action Toward Restitution and Restorative Justice for Blacks, Latinos/Latinx, and Native Americans

Marinus Chijioke Iwuchukwu

  1. Legitimate Political Discourse”: January 6th and the Brutality of White Theodicy

Biko Mandela Gray

  1. Philosophical Ends and Theological Beginnings: The Logos, the Nigger,

and Whiteness in American Christianity

Timothy Golden

  1. Misogyny and the Stench of White Supremacist Christianity

Traci C. West

  1. “Where Is the Love?”: Christian Nationalism and the Politics of Exclusion

Kathy Glass

  1. The Life and Death of Queen Elizabeth II: Defender of the Faith, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and Manifestation of the White Colonial Gaze
Kimberley Ducey
  1. “The Order” of the Day: Lessons, Philosophical and Otherwise, from Childhood at the Heart of American Christian Nationalism

James Garrison

  1. Victims of the Cross: Violence and Apocalyptic Discourse in Christian Nationalism

Sheldon George

  1. White Solidarity on Campus and The Sin of Neutrality

Elisabeth Vasko

  1. Can White Christian Nationalists and Donald Trump Be Overcome?

Josiah Ulysses Young III

  1. Revolution and the Soul of White Christianity

Dean J. Johnson

  1. The Hidden White Flesh of White Christian Nationalism:

Anthropological Docetism and the Forging of Idols

José Francisco Morales Torres

  1. On White Christian Violence

Anthony Paul Smith

Closing Poem

ORIGINAL SIN

Michael Simms

Index

About the Contributors

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      Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
      Publication Date: 20/11/2023
      ISBN13: 9781538183298, 978-1538183298
      ISBN10: 1538183293

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From Megyn Kelly's claim that Jesus is white to former President Trump's claim that he is the “chosen one” or the “King of Israel,” there is serious trouble in paradise. Contemporary manifestations of white Christian nationalism are deeply entangled in political issues from women’s political rights over their own bodies to the rejection of Critical Race Theory (CRT). Carrying Christian signs and crosses, protestors at the Capitol insurrection on January 6th were not only fighting with a sense of white nationalist duty but fighting with a religious zeal, making this a pressing moment in the current time to which this volume speaks.

      This edited collection invites scholars share frustration, anger, interrogation, and conceptual clarity with readers regarding this toxic form of Christianity that fights not in the name of love, but in the name of political domination and out of deep fear and hatred. Attention is also brought to Christianity’s counter-voice, one predicated upon love, and its effectiveness to resist not just deep political pro-white forces at work, but also its capacity to focus emphasis upon Christian love. The text is designed to speak to the contemporary moment with respect to the explicit and implicit ways in which white nationalism and white Christianity continue to be entangled and reinforce one another. Contributors are asked to articulate what is behind this racially, politically, ideologically, psychically charged whiteness of Christianity in the US, and to articulate what is beyond the whiteness of Christianity for both Christians and non-Christians alike concerned with the rise of white Christian nationalism.



      Trade Review

      In Sheep’s Clothing is a collection of compelling essays that dig at the roots of white Christian nationalism. Especially in this threatening moment of American history, with Christianity occupying center stage, George Yancy and Bill Bywater have drawn together well-researched, intelligent resources that revolutionary lovers of justice can turn to repeatedly for moral and political wisdom. I know I will.

      -- Carter Heyward, Professor Emerita of Theology, Episcopal Divinity School, and author of The Seven Deadly Sins of White Christian Nationalism: A Call to Action

      Table of Contents

      Foreword by J. Kameron Carter

      Introduction by George Yancy

      Introduction by Bill Bywater

      Opening Poem

      Mary Magdalene Sings

      Becky Thompson

      1. White Christians and the U.S. Corporate Warrior State

      Mark Lewis Taylor

      1. White Mob Logic

      Karen Teel

      1. The “Promised Land” in Christian Nationalist Rhetoric: The Persistent Vision of Christianity as a Religion of Conquest

      Brock Bahler

      1. Discipleship or Duplicity? A Christian “No” to white Christian Nationalism

      Anna Floerke Scheid

      1. White Christians Warring against Democracy: A Long History

      Joe Feagin

      1. The Pedagogy of Hegemony: A History of Christian Nationalism’s

      Narrative Wars and School Dominance

      Todd M. Mealy

      1. Who do you say that I am?

      Laurie Cassidy

      1. The Theological Irony of White Christian Nationalism: A View from the South

      Leah Kalmanson

      1. Christian Churches in North America and the Imperatives of the Dialogue of Action Toward Restitution and Restorative Justice for Blacks, Latinos/Latinx, and Native Americans

      Marinus Chijioke Iwuchukwu

      1. Legitimate Political Discourse”: January 6th and the Brutality of White Theodicy

      Biko Mandela Gray

      1. Philosophical Ends and Theological Beginnings: The Logos, the Nigger,

      and Whiteness in American Christianity

      Timothy Golden

      1. Misogyny and the Stench of White Supremacist Christianity

      Traci C. West

      1. “Where Is the Love?”: Christian Nationalism and the Politics of Exclusion

      Kathy Glass

      1. The Life and Death of Queen Elizabeth II: Defender of the Faith, Supreme Governor of the Church of England, and Manifestation of the White Colonial Gaze
      Kimberley Ducey
      1. “The Order” of the Day: Lessons, Philosophical and Otherwise, from Childhood at the Heart of American Christian Nationalism

      James Garrison

      1. Victims of the Cross: Violence and Apocalyptic Discourse in Christian Nationalism

      Sheldon George

      1. White Solidarity on Campus and The Sin of Neutrality

      Elisabeth Vasko

      1. Can White Christian Nationalists and Donald Trump Be Overcome?

      Josiah Ulysses Young III

      1. Revolution and the Soul of White Christianity

      Dean J. Johnson

      1. The Hidden White Flesh of White Christian Nationalism:

      Anthropological Docetism and the Forging of Idols

      José Francisco Morales Torres

      1. On White Christian Violence

      Anthony Paul Smith

      Closing Poem

      ORIGINAL SIN

      Michael Simms

      Index

      About the Contributors

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