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      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
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      White Smoke, Black Pope? Pope Leo XIV, first US pontiff, has African roots
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    • HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
    • What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
      What The Roman Catholic Church needs is a wholesale reset, not a new Pope
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    • Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
      Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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    • Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
    • EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
      EXPERTS AGREE: what Trump is doing is fascism
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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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