Panel: RELIGIOUS NATIONALISMS AND AUTHORITARIAN POLITICS TODAY



1069.1 - THE EVOLUTION OF MAGA: FROM WHITE CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM TO WHITE CHRISTIAN

AUTHORS:
Gorski P. (Yale University ~ New Haven ~ United States of America) , Dieckhoff A. (Sciences-Po, Paris ~ Paris ~ France) , Kormina J. (Yerevan Center for International Education ~ Yerevan ~ Armenia)
Text:
The MAGA movement has various factions (e.g., populist, nationalist, monarchist and Christianist). The most common descriptor for the Christianist current is "White Christian Nationalism" (WCN). But MAGA has evolved over the past five years, and WCN no longer captures the self-understanding of the movement articulated by its leading intellectuals. Their religio-political ideology is better described as "White Christian Civilizationism." This paper will explore the causes and consequences of this shift.