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

Authors

Kaya Bottmeyer, Dominican University of CaliforniaFollow
Charolette Moody, Dominican University of CaliforniaFollow
Gina Dudley, Dominican University of CaliforniaFollow
Alexander Kulin, Dominican University of CaliforniaFollow
Madeleine Larson, Dominican University of CaliforniaFollow
Jason Halpern, Dominican University of CaliforniaFollow
George Faithful, Dominican University of CaliforniaFollow

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Publication Year

2023

Abstract

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.