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October 4, 2022. When people hear the phrase “white Christian nationalism” in the news, they do not always get the correct meaning. “A common misunderstanding would be that it is the same thing as being a patriotic Christian,” said Philip Gorski, chair of the Department of Sociology at Yale.
White Christian nationalism has been in the headlines quite a lot as of late. Brad Onishi is a former evangelical minister who once identified as a Christian nationalist himself. He left the...
Why White Christian Nationalism Isn’t Going Away. 5 minute read. Despite electoral defeats, many white Christian Nationalists believe their numbers are growing. Getty Images/Tetra...
In a new book, Yale’s Philip Gorski examines white Christian nationalism, the ideology that inspired many who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was a hodgepodge of conflicting symbols. The protestors erected a large wooden cross and gallows.
The term “white Christian nationalism” has recently emerged in the social sciences and the media as a way of describing the worldview that has burst onto the public stage with Trumpism and...
White Christian nationalism (WCN) is, first of all, a story about America. It says: America was founded as a Christian nation, by (white) Christians; and its laws and institutions are based on “Biblical” (that is, Protestant) Christianity. This much is certain, though: America is divinely favored. Whence its enormous wealth and power.
It believes the founders of the U.S. were conservative, white Christian men intent on founding a country where they and others like them could lead and flourish. Now, many Americans believe...
