The power worshippers: inside the dangerous rise of religious nationalism

Securing the votes of conservative – mainly white – Christians has been a key issue in US presidential elections since the presidency of Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. Before Donald Trump, however, no...

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  2021

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  Religion, State and Society

• Publication date

  2021-03-09

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  Political Science

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  DOI 10.1080/09637494.2021.1888502
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