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Book SynopsisAre most white American Christians actually committed to a Religion of Whiteness?Recent years have seen a growing recognition of the role that White Christian Nationalism plays in American society. As White Christian Nationalism has become a major force, and as racial and religious attitudes become increasingly aligned among whites--for example, the more likely you are to say that the decline of white people as a share of the population is bad for society, the more likely you are to believe the government should support religious values--it has become reasonable to wonder which of the adjectives in the phrase White Christian Nationalism takes precedence. In this book, Michael O. Emerson and Glenn E. Bracey II respond definitively: the answer is white. The majority of white Christians in America, they argue, are believers in a Religion of Whiteness that shapes their faith, their politics, and more. The Religion of Whiteness, they argue, raises the perpetuation of racial inequality to a
