Scholars conflate distinct religious-nationalist traditions under the blanket term Christian nationalism.
Evidence
Previous scholarship also analytically conflates a variety of symbolic and rhetorical sentiments from historically distinct movements, ideologies, and social institutions. Understanding this duality within CN is important because, as Besbris and Khan (2017:148) warn, “As the concept spreads, scholars become incapable of precisely stating what it is and it ends up depicting many things that are unrelated to or inconsistent with one another.” We feel this has occurred with the concept of CN and offer this paper to clarify that CS and RT comprise distinct dimensions. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 218
Categorization
- QUESTION: Whether the two-factor split survives when racial attitudes and conservatism are partialled out is exactly what the reader is testing.
- XREF: connects to: Scholars conflate Christian nationalism with its statist variant. — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 218; Nationalisms vary in how fully religion defines them rather than merely residue — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 102; Christian nationalism is not an exclusively evangelical ideology — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 213 (+6 more)
Broader Connections
- Distinguishes ‘full fusion’ nationalisms from mere religiously-inflected ones by whether religion defines the nationalism
#corroborates(0.88) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 102 - Scholars conflate Christian nationalism with its statist variant.
#expands(0.85) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 218 - Christian nationalism splits into two ideals measured on acceptance spectrums rather than discrete classes
#expands(0.82) — Ruiqian Li and Paul Froese, The Duality of American Christian…, 94 - Nationalisms vary in how fully religion defines them rather than merely residue
#expands(0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 102 - Christian nationalism differs from the Christian nation narrative in its boundary-preserving intent
#exemplifies(0.80) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 95 - Secularist bias hid that nationalism and religion fused while remaining distinct
#corroborates(0.80) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 70 - Christian nationalism is not an exclusively evangelical ideology
#exemplifies(0.78) — Andrew L. Whitehead; Samuel L. Perry, Taking America Back for God, 213 - Religion and nationalism are fused throughout secular Zionism, not only in religious nationalism.
#exemplifies(0.78) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 523 - Christian nationalism bundles political ideology with cultural religious claims
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