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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1. VerfasserIn: Abraham, Susan 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: [2019]
In: Concilium
Jahr: 2019, Heft: 2, Seiten: 61-72
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Trump, Donald 1946- / USA / Christentum / Populismus / Männlichkeit / Massenmedien / Unterhaltung
IxTheo Notationen:CD Christentum und Kultur
CG Christentum und Politik
KBQ Nordamerika
weitere Schlagwörter:B Christians
B Masculinity
B Power (Social sciences)
B United States
B Populism
B Trump, Donald, 1946-
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:0010-5236
Enthält:Enthalten in: Concilium