Lecture | Leiden University Nationalism Network
Why Did So Many American Christians Vote for Donald Trump (Again)?
- Date
- Tuesday 3 December 2024
- Time
- Serie
- Leiden University Nationalism Network events
- Address
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 0.19
Abstract
In America, Christianity and Nationalism are deeply entangled with each other – and with race. White Christian Nationalism has long been one of the most powerful currents within American political culture; it still is. In this lecture, Yale sociologist Philip Gorski analyzes White Christian Nationalism, its links to Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, how they might be changing, and what this portends for the future of American democracy.
Speaker
Philip Gorski is the Frederick and Laura Goff Professor at Yale University, New Haven, United States. Currently he is a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies. He is the author, most recently, of American Covenant: A Brief History of Civil Religion (Princeton University Press 2019) and (w. Samuel Perry), The Flag and the Cross: WCN and the Threat to Democracy (Oxford University Press 2022). He is currently completing a book on the fragmentation of the sacred and the history of Western modernity.
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The meeting will be held on campus, in Lipsius 0.19, but will also be streamed via Zoom:
Meeting ID: 679 0677 0385 Passcode: &M?y3y0F
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