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    • Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
      Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
    • Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
      Breaking Up With Marilynne Robinson Over Her Refusal to Acknowledge the Dark Side of Puritanism
    • Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
      Racialization Meets Purity Culture: Abortion Criminalization Cases Confirm That It’s Always Been About Controlling Women’s Bodies And Protecting the ‘Ideal’ American Family
  • Politics/Law
    • The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?
      The Vile Attack on Salman Rushdie Reminds Us of the Value of a Free Society — But is Our Outrage More About the Criminal Than the Crime?
    • Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
      Sometimes Dialogue is Not the Answer and Neutrality is a Trap: An Interview with the Authors of ‘The Neutrality Trap’
    • Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
      Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
  • Sex/Gender/Justice
    • Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right
      Despite Vastly Different Values, Evangelical ‘Hamilton’ Connects Secular Left and Christian Right
    • What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
      What a Turn-of-the-Century Anti-Abortion and Contraception Crusader Reveals About GOP Efforts to Ban Abortion Pills by Mail
    • Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
      Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom
  • Christian Nationalism
    • Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
      Crossing the Rubicon? Mar-a-Lago Raid Enflames Right Wing Fantasies of Christian Caesarism
    • The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
      The Right is Using the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Search to Martyr Trump and Maintain the Violent Myth of the Big Lie
    • New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
      New Apostolic Reformation Faces Profound Rift Due to Trump Prophecies and ‘Spiritual Manipulation of the Prophetic Gift’
  • Russia Invades Ukraine
    • Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
      Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
    • With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
      With This Largely Overlooked Shakeup is the Russian Orthodox Church Looking to Westernize? Yes and No
    • Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
      Moscow Suffers its Most High Profile Defection Yet
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Sophie Bjork-James

Sophie Bjork-James an Assistant Professor of the Practice in Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She has over ten years experience researching both the US based Religious Right and the white nationalist movements. She is working on a book manuscript on race, the family, and evangelical politics. Her work has appeared on the NBC Nightly News,NPR’s All Things Considered and BBC Radio 4’s Today.

Archive, Christian Nationalism, OMFG, Politics/Law, Sex/Gender/JusticeApril 19, 2022

The Right’s ‘Grooming’ Rhetoric Didn’t Begin with QAnon — You Have to Go Back a Bit Further to Get to the Source

By Sophie Bjork-James

It seems that all the Right wants to talk about these days is “grooming.” These…

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(A)theologies, Archive, Christian Nationalism, Politics/LawApril 27, 2021

Rick Santorum Breezes Past the Genocidal Foundation of White Christian Nationalism

By Sophie Bjork-James

Andrew Seidel’s piece on RD discusses Rick Santorum’s racially incendiary remarks about Native Americans and…

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Politics/Law, Politics/Law, Racial Justice, Sex/Gender/JusticeJuly 12, 2018

The ‘Pro-Family’ Movement Has Little to Say About Family Separation

By Sophie Bjork-James

Unlike the vast majority of the pro-family movement, which is almost exclusively white and middle-class, these separations have largely affected people of color.

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