Social Justice | Student Perspectives on Religious Nationalism

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  Insiders/Outsiders in America: Students Capture Shifting Perspectives

  Madelyn Ayers, Shanyn Furlong, Chris Wood, Leslie Bejaran Solorio, Shannon Chloe Cheng, Christopher Mendez-Lemus, and George Faithful

  What the U.S. is and ought to be depends on who you ask, where they stand, and their personal story. In this volume’s essays, student authors built on their work in Dominican University of California’s 2024 “Religious Nationalism” course to capture some of the divergent possibilities, including shifts in their own perspectives.

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  American Dream, American Nightmare? Students Respond to White Christian Nationalism

  Kaya Bottmeyer, Charolette Moody, Gina Dudley, Alexander Kulin, Madeleine Larson, Jason Halpern, and George Faithful

  What happened in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021? Students enrolled in Dominican’s “Religious Nationalism” course have responded based on their own perspectives. The title of this volume is a question. Some of authors answer it “yes,” some “no,” others “maybe.” We as a nation have witnessed a resurgence of religious nationalism. It isn’t always white (depending on how you define “white”) and it isn’t always Christian (same), but that particular racial-religious intersection plays an especially prominent role, sometimes more, sometimes less, in what follows.