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    'The Power Worshippers' Explores Religious Nationalism In The U.S.

    Katherine Stewart's new book is called "The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism."
    Mar 05, 2020 5 minutes
    Audience members join hands in worship at the Franklin Graham Decision America event at the Pitt County Fairgrounds in Greenville, N.C. on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Chris Seward)

    Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with Katherine Stewart (@kathsstewart) about her new book “The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.”

    Excerpt: ‘The Power Worshippers’

    By Katherine Stewart

    In early 2018 the bills started to come in. The people who follow these types of legislation across the states—the lawyers at Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom from Religion Foundation, for example—sensed that something strange was afoot. In all of 2017 there had been three bills proposing the use of “In God We Trust” in various official forums. Now there were more than that number rolling in every week.

    By April 2018 state legislatures had been served with more than seventy bills based on Project Blitz models. Some of them involved the motto “In God We Trust”

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