White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America
Anthea Butler
Apr 2021 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Allyson Johnson
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The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals plays a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power. Butler reveals how evangelical racism, propelled by the benefits of whiteness, has since the nation's founding played a provocative role in severely fracturing the electorate. During the buildup to the Civil War, white evangelicals used scripture to defend slavery and nurture the Confederacy. During Reconstruction, they used it to deny the vote to newly emancipated blacks. In the twentieth century, they sided with segregationists in avidly opposing movements for racial equality and civil rights. Most recently, evangelicals supported the Tea Party, a Muslim ban, and border policies allowing family separation. White evangelicals today, cloaked in a vision of Christian patriarchy and nationhood, form a staunch voting bloc in support of white leadership.
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Freedom Warrior
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January 16, 2022
Totally deceptive writing. Remember the Democrats in Congress voted in favor of segregation, they wanted to keep slavery, they had no intentions of providing free equal treatment to any other people. The Republican party, started by Lincoln. The union army fought the civil to start the great change of eliminating slavery and making all people's free. Again this country did what no country did in all of mankinds history.... Keep racism alive by keeping people upset about a past they do not know.
Patrick N
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May 14, 2022
An in-depth look at the racism woven into the fabric of the American evangelical movement. For examples, look no further than the rhetoric on display in the negative reviews left below by members of the evangelical right.
Dewayne Chandler
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May 5, 2021
great honest assessment of what's wrong in American Christianity. very prophetic.
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Anthea Butler is associate professor of religion at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World. A leading historian and public commentator on religion and politics, Butler has appeared on networks including CNN, BBC, and MSNBC.
Allyson Johnson began her entertainment career in her hometown of Chicago as an Emmy Award-winning child news anchor. A graduate of Brown University, she is a working actress, singer, and audiobook narrator in the New York City metropolitan area.
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