THE POWER WORSHIPPERS: INSIDE the DANGEROUS RISE of RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM (audiobook) by Katherine Stewart
The book is a detailed look at the Christian Nationalist movement in America. The strength of the book is its meticulous research. It ties together famous names and organizations with less famous names pulling the strings through not-for-profits and political action committees across the country.
I come to this book as a lifelong, politically aware Christian. I vote, I read about politics and religion, I post about politics and religion and I listen to podcasts that discuss politics and religion. That being said, I am all for keeping politics and religion separate because politics taints and corrupts religion every time and twists it into something it is not meant to be.
The book does have its weaknesses, though. One is that the author, Katherine Stewart, does have some degree of anti-religious bias. She is really bothered by religious groups renting spaces in public schools and would clearly like to outlaw that practice. I am a public school teacher and I can tell you that schools rent out parts of the buildings and grounds all of the time. I have seen churches rent parts of a school building out, but also jazzercise teachers, political candidates (just this week at my current school), colleges, girl scout troops, sports leagues, Fortune 500 corporations for shareholder presentations (in the auditorium) and more. They all get to do this because they are all part of the community that built the building with shared tax dollars.
The reader also mispronounced some words, especially some of a religious nature which just reinforced the feeling of bias.
All of that being said, Stewart presents such an alarming and convincing case that even if you take what she says with a grain of salt, you will still find it alarming.
This book can be found on Amazon.com here: THE POWER WORSHIPPERS: INSIDE the DANGEROUS RISE of RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM by Katherine Stewart.
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| The author, Katherine Stewart |
The book does have its weaknesses, though. One is that the author, Katherine Stewart, does have some degree of anti-religious bias. She is really bothered by religious groups renting spaces in public schools and would clearly like to outlaw that practice. I am a public school teacher and I can tell you that schools rent out parts of the buildings and grounds all of the time. I have seen churches rent parts of a school building out, but also jazzercise teachers, political candidates (just this week at my current school), colleges, girl scout troops, sports leagues, Fortune 500 corporations for shareholder presentations (in the auditorium) and more. They all get to do this because they are all part of the community that built the building with shared tax dollars.
The reader also mispronounced some words, especially some of a religious nature which just reinforced the feeling of bias.
All of that being said, Stewart presents such an alarming and convincing case that even if you take what she says with a grain of salt, you will still find it alarming.
This book can be found on Amazon.com here: THE POWER WORSHIPPERS: INSIDE the DANGEROUS RISE of RELIGIOUS NATIONALISM by Katherine Stewart.
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