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  • Chapter 14 - The Saviour of Christian America?

  • from Part IV - A Faustian Bargain?
  • Tobias Cremer, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Godless Crusade
    Published online:
    23 March 2023
    Print publication:
    30 March 2023, pp 208-224

  • Summary

    Chapter 14 analyses the Trump campaign’s relationship with religion in more detail. Based on the material gathered in several dozen elite interviews with political and religious leaders it shows how in the context of an identitarian turn in American politics, the Trump campaign appealed to America’s tradition of white Christian nationalism and forged an alliance with a subset of Christian leaders. However, it also shows how, while doing so, the Trump campaign and administration increasingly departed from America’s civil religious tradition, clashed with Christian doctrine on identitarian issues, and embraced a more identitarian and transactional approach to Christian institutions, indicating less the resurgence of the Christian right in American politics than its erosion and gradual replacement by a more secular but no less radical populist and identitarian right.