The Proto-History of the Religious Right: the KKK

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

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🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In an interview recorded in 2019, Brad talks with Dr. Kelly J. Baker, author of the award-winning book "Gospel According to the Klan." They talk about how and why the Klan's story is THE story of white Protestant America and how the Klan is an important antecedent to the modern-day 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	This fall, get ready for on God's campus. Voices from the Queer Underground podcast about
0:13.7	white Christian supremacy and being queer in the most conservative campuses in the country.
0:19.5	Join Chloe as the mighty dollar reads in God we trust. Paul, especially the text about
0:25.8	homosexuality and abortion. And I adhered to that biblical document until I was 19 when I had my
0:33.2	first relationship with a woman. As they reveal a roadmap to change from the underbelly of the church's
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0:52.4	from our amazing lineup of creators.
1:06.0	This is my name is Brad Onishi. I'm a associate professor of religious studies.
1:10.4	Let's get more college and I am super, super thrilled today to be joined by Dr. Kelly J. Baker.
1:16.4	For as many hats, I'm just going to mention a few. She's the editor of Women in Higher Education.
1:21.4	She's also the managing editor of Disability Acts, which is a magazine for disability essays,
1:26.2	Screeds, and manifestos. Freelance writer who is contributed to The New York Times, the Atlantic,
1:30.9	the Washington Post, the Chronicle, and many other outlets. And the author of several award-winning
1:37.9	books, including Grace Period, a Memoir in Pieces, Sexism Ed, essays on gender and labor
1:44.1	and academia. And the book we're going to give out today, gospel according to the clan, the KKK's
1:49.6	Appeal to Protestant America, 1915 to 1930. So Dr. Kelly J. Baker, thank you so much for joining us
1:55.7	today. Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited. So I wondered if we could just start. We want
2:01.8	to talk today about how in ways it might surprise many of our listeners, the KKK was sort of
2:09.5	thoroughly influenced and one could say imbued with Christianity and Christian Protestantism.
2:15.2	And to tell the story of the KKK, according to your scholarship, really means to tell a story
2:20.1	of American Christianity in some sense. I just want our listeners to know this is like a
2:24.6	super fanboy moment for me, because I teach Dr. Kelly J. Baker's book, gospel according to the clan
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