Masculinist Populism and Toxic Christianity in the United States
This essay explores scholarly literature on Donald Trump's populist rhetoric that has been extremely successful with white American Christians. I argue that Trump's rhetoric subtly deploys the anxieties of white Christians and their sense of loss of privilege and power to reassert traditio...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
[2019]
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| In: |
Concilium
Year: 2019, Issue: 2, Pages: 61-72 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Trump, Donald 1946-
/ USA
/ Christianity
/ Populism
/ Masculinity
/ Mass media
/ Entertainment
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics KBQ North America |
| Further subjects: | B
Christians
B Masculinity B Power (Social sciences) B United States B Populism B Trump, Donald, 1946- |
| Summary: | This essay explores scholarly literature on Donald Trump's populist rhetoric that has been extremely successful with white American Christians. I argue that Trump's rhetoric subtly deploys the anxieties of white Christians and their sense of loss of privilege and power to reassert traditional and idealized views of masculinity. White Christians ignore Trump's public behaviour as satire even as his behaviour secures political power within the United States for them. Trump, as I argue, provides white American Christians with a believable figure of muscular masculinity, leaving them to express a specific form of patriotic and muscular Christianity. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Concilium
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