Sophie Bjork-James on the Similarities Between White Nationalists and Christian Nationalists

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Dr. Sophie Bjork-James is an anthropologist at Vanderbilt University. She is a specialist in race, gender, and religion with a focus on White nationalism and White evangelicalism. One of her recent projects is a close reading of the Left Behind series and the Turner Diaries, the latter many consider the Bible of the White supremacy movement. Reading these two texts together reveals the stunning similarities in White nationalism and Christian nationalism, including their belief that violence is justified to achieve their political goals, their fear of global organizations such as NATO and WHO, and their willingness to trample democracy if it means they can stay in power. 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	Welcome to Straight White American Jesus hosted in partnership with the CAP Center at the University of California
0:19.5	Santa Barbara. My name is Brad O'Nishi, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Skidmore College.
0:24.0	And I'm joined today by Dr. Sophie Bjork James, who's an anthropologist at Vanderbilt University.
0:30.0	Dr. Bjork James is assistant professor there and is the co-editor of Beyond Populism,
0:35.8	angry politics in the twilight of neoliberalism. And our conversation today is going to center
0:40.8	on her chapter from that text.
0:43.7	Also the author of the forthcoming The Divine Institution,
0:46.7	White Evangelicalism's Politics of the Family.
0:49.8	And that'll be out next year from Rutgers University Press and I hope I can coax you into
0:55.0	coming back to talk about the book as soon as it is out and so you are a specialist in things
1:01.9	related to race, things related to gender, things related to religion,
1:05.4	especially white evangelicalism.
1:06.9	So I'm so glad to have you and thanks for joining me, Sophie.
1:10.4	I'm really grateful.
1:12.4	Thank you so much. I'm really grateful. Thank you so much.
1:13.0	I'm really happy to be here.
1:15.0	So we have just entered a situation where it looks like the official sort of leavers of the peaceful transition of power will take place and I think all of us are still
1:25.1	reeling from just what turned out to be election season, not election day or
1:29.4	election week and that's taken its toll. One of the things that we continue to do,
1:34.0	and I just feel like needs to be a priority of our show,
1:37.0	is to continue to try to contextualize and understand
1:40.0	the alliance that has formed, actually has been present for a long time, but has really sort of come into public view.
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