Yeah Nah Pasaran! #087 w Sophie Bjork-James on White Evangelicalism : September 23, 2021

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah Pasaran! we talk to Sophie Bjork-James [Twitter], an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University and the author of The Divine Institution: White Evangelicalism’s Politics of the Family (Rutgers University Press, 2021), which ‘provides an account of how a theology of the family came to dominate a white evangelical tradition in the post-civil rights movement United States, providing a theological corollary to Religious Right politics’.

4.30pm, Thursday, September 23, 2021 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

See also : What is the Narnia-inspired Caldron Pool and is it fomenting ‘Christian nationalism’ in Australia?, Tory Shepherd, the Guardian, September 22, 2021 | Sins of the Father: ‘The investigation into the dark past of Frank Houston doesn’t stop. There’s much more digging to do.’, David Hardaker, Crikey, June–September, 2021 | Scott Morrison Is a New Kind of Australian Prime Minister: An Evangelical Christian, Rick Rojas, The New York Times, August 27, 2018 | Voting for Jesus: Christianity and politics in Australia, Amanda Lohrey, Quarterly Essay, No.22, June 2006.

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