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Matthew Rowley, "Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again" (Routledge, 2020)

Matthew Rowley, "Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again" (Routledge, 2020)

FromNew Books in Religion


Matthew Rowley, "Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again" (Routledge, 2020)

FromNew Books in Religion

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49 minutes
Released:
Jan 21, 2021
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The relationship between American Protestant Evangelicals and the candidacy, presidency, and legacy of Donald Trump arrests the attention of journalists and pundits alike. But few have probed the implication that the rally cry "Make America Great Again" contains within it a certain historiographical claim. Protestant Christian leaders in America have responded in polarized ways to this slogan. In Trump and the Protestant Reaction to Make America Great Again (Routledge, 2021), Dr Matthew Rowley offers something of a study partisan historiography, exploring three different responses to the approach to history as suggested by Donald Trump. Some embrace the call to "Make America Great Again," others respond with a counter call to "Make America Lament," while still others prefer to "Make America Better." This accessible and timely study utilizes empathy as a means of understanding and critique, and contributes much needed perspective and balm for the current state of fracture within American religion and politics. 
Ryan David Shelton (@ryoldfashioned) is a social historian of British and American Protestantism and a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast.
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Jan 21, 2021
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