The flag and the cross : white Christian nationalism and the threat to American democracy
(2022)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
261.7/GORSKI,P
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
DESCRIPTION
xii, 157 pages : illustrations, charts ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780197618684, 0197618685, 9780197618684
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction: Eruption -- "This is our nation, not theirs" -- The spirit of 1690 -- Freedom, violence, order -- Avoiding "the big one."
In this short primer, Gorski and Perry explain what white Christian nationalism is and is not; when it first emerged and how it has changed; where it's headed and why it threatens democracy. Tracing the development of this ideology over the course of three centuries and especially its influence over the last three decades, they show how white Christian nationalism motivates the anti-democratic, authoritarian, and violent impulses on display in our current political moment