Racism at the Start: History of the Religious Right (re-issue)

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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During the first half of this episode Brad and Dan trace the racist and nationalistic origins of white evangelical politics. On the second half, Brad talks with Dartmouth scholar Randall Balmer, who is perhaps the world's leading scholar of the history of the Religious Right in American politics. He explains that racism in the form of opposition to the integration of schools and segregated churches was the catalyst for the rise of the Religious Right. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get bonus episodes, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/StraightWhiteJC Order Brad's new book: https://www.amazon.com/Preparing-War-Extremist-Christian-Nationalism/dp/1506482163 SWAJ Apparel is here! https://straight-white-american-jesus.creator-spring.com/listing/not-today-uncle-ron To Donate: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/BradleyOnishi Venmo: @straightwhitejc Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I am officially running for president of the United States the American dream is dead.
0:12.0	Please please it's too much winning.
0:15.0	We can't take it anymore.
0:17.0	We have to keep winning.
0:19.0	We have to win more.
0:20.0	We're going to win more.
0:22.0	Okay, welcome to Straight White American Jesus.
0:26.0	I am Brad O'Nishi Associate Professor of Religion at Skidmore College.
0:30.0	And I'm Dan Miller, an Associate Professor Religion and Social Thought, at Landmark College.
0:35.0	Last episode, we called it 81 percent, and we were looking at how and why 81 percent of white
0:41.2	evangelicals voted for Donald Trump.
0:44.1	And we left the discussion with a key question.
0:45.8	We had put forward, or at least I had put forward,
0:48.0	the thesis that Republican or politically conservative identity
0:52.3	is a part of the religious identity
0:54.8	of contemporary white evangelical Christians.
0:58.0	But it brought up the question of how did that happen.
1:00.5	There was a time in as we now experience it.
1:05.0	And so what we want to look at today
1:10.0	is how that came to be.
1:11.4	How do we get from a time when to be an
1:13.8	evangelical Christian was not necessarily to be a Republican or
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