Further Reading and Resources: Christian Nationalism
Books
Blaker, Kimberly, ed., The Fundamentals of Extremism: The Christian Right in America. New Boston, MI: New Boston Books, Inc., 2003.
Boyd, Gregory A., The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church. Paperback – April 29, 2007.
Butler, Anthea D. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Charles, Mark and Soong-Chan Rah. Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2019.
Cooper-White, Pamela. The Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People Are Drawn In and How to Talk Across the Divide. Minneapolis, Minnesota: 1517 Media, 2022.
Goldberg, Michelle. Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. NY/London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
Gorski, Philip S., Samuel L. Perry, and Jemar Tisby. The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Hendricks, Obery M., Jr. Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith. Boston: Beacon Press, 2021.
Howe, Ben. The Immoral Majority. Paperback – July 30, 2020.
Jones, Robert P. The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy. New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2023.
Jones, Robert P. White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. New York. NY: Simon & Schuster, 2020.
Kaylor, Brian and Beau Underwood. Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism. Danvers, MA: Chalice Press, 2024.
Kobes Du Mez, Kristin. Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. New York, NY: Liveright Publishing Corporation, A Division of W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Kruse, Kevin. One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America. New York: Basic Books, 2015.
Paul D. Miller. What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2022.
Seidel, Andrew L. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American. New York: Sterling, 2021.
Stewart, Katherine. The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.
Tisby, Jemar. The Color of Compromise: The Truth About the American Church's Complicity in Racism. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2019.
Tim, Alberta. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Hardcover – December 5, 2023.
Tyler, Amanda. How to End Christian Nationalism. Broadleaf Books: To be released in Fall 2024.
Wallis, Jim. The False White Gospel. New York, NY: St Martin’s Publishing Group, 2024.
Whitehead, Andrew L. and Samuel L. Perry. Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Wolfe, Stephen. The Case for Christian Nationalism. Moscow, ID: Canon Press. 2022.
Online Resources
Journal of Lutheran Ethics, June/July 2024 issue. Christian Nationalism
"https://learn.elca.org/jle/issue/june-july-2024-christian-nationalism/"
Baptist Joint Commission (BJC)
"https://bjconline.org/christian-nationalism"
Christians Against Christian Nationalism
"https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/homepage"
ELCA Advocacy. We Are Christians Against Christian Nationalism
ELCA. Study Curriculum on Civic Faith and Life
"//www.elca.org/civicsandfaithstudy"
ELCA. A Declaration of Inter-Religious Commitment
"https://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/Inter-Religious_Policy_Statement.pdf"
The Church in Society. A Lutheran Perspective
"https://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/Church_SocietySS.pdf"
Video: Why I Am Against Christian Nationalism, August 18, 2023. The Rev. Elizabeth Eaton, Presiding Bishop, ELCA
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXEAZUA3JkM"
Video: Resisting and Engaging with Religious Nationalism
Sponsored by the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), and the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS), September 2020
"https://lutheranworld.org/news/resisting-and-engaging-religious-nationalism"
Podcast: Christians Against Christian Nationalism, Podcast Series. BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler and General Counsel Holly Hollman
"https://www.christiansagainstchristiannationalism.org/podcasts"
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