Evangelical Populist Internationalism and the Politics of Persecution

This article explores the rise of the US movement for persecuted Christians as a form of evangelical internationalism. This internationalism is built on a moral geography that highlights the ties between US evangelicals and Christians in other parts of the world, challenging the isolationist self-re...

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Auteur principal: McAlister, Melani 1962- (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [2019]
Dans: The review of faith & international affairs
Année: 2019, Volume: 17, Numéro: 3, Pages: 105-117
Classifications IxTheo:CG Christianisme et politique
CH Christianisme et société
KBQ Amérique du Nord
KDG Église libre
RH Évangélisation
Sujets non-standardisés:B Internationalism
B Turkey
B persecuted church
B Populism
B Evangelicals
B Nigeria
B international religious freedom
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Résumé:This article explores the rise of the US movement for persecuted Christians as a form of evangelical internationalism. This internationalism is built on a moral geography that highlights the ties between US evangelicals and Christians in other parts of the world, challenging the isolationist self-regard that American evangelicals are often accused of. This article argues, however, that some important components of the persecuted Christians movement mobilize a common populist trope of an in-group facing attack from outside. Rather than organizing around religious freedom broadly, they construct a narrative of American Christians as part of a victimized and marginalized group, based on their ties with a global Christian community defined as persecuted. Rather than being part of a binary of populism versus internationalism, key parts of the persecuted Christians movement use internationalism to support Christian populism.
ISSN:1931-7743
Contient:Enthalten in: The review of faith & international affairs
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2019.1644007