{"product_id":"kingdom-coming-the-rise-of-christian-nationalism-9780393060942","title":"Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A potent wakeup call to pluralists in the coming showdown with Christian nationalists.\"Publishers Weekly  starred review Michelle Goldberg  a senior political reporter for Salon.com  has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election  and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism  disregard for the national budget  and poorly disguised self-interest had been reinstated  Goldberg traveled through the heartland of a country in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism: the America of our time. From the classroom to the mega-church to the federal court  she saw how the growing influence of dominionism-the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule nonbelievers-is threatening the foundations of democracy.  In Kingdom Coming  Goldberg demonstrates how an increasingly bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our national life  taking us on a tour of the parallel right-wing evangelical culture that is buoyed by Republican political patronage. Deep within the red zones of a divided America  we meet military retirees pledging to seize the nation in Christs name  perfidious congressmen courting the confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy  and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution to the countrys social problems.  With her trenchant interviews and the telling testimonies of the people behind this movement  Goldberg gains access into the hearts and minds of citizens who are striving to remake the secular Republic bequeathed by our founders into a Christian nation run according to their interpretation of scripture. In her examination of the ever-widening divide between believers and nonbelievers  Goldberg illustrates the subversive effect of this conservative stranglehold nationwide. In an age when faith rather than reason is heralded and the values of the Enlightenment are threatened by a mystical nationalism claiming divine sanction  Kingdom Coming brings us face to face with the irrational forces that are remaking much of America.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45646943125557,"sku":"ByrdShop_0393060942","price":21.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780393060942.jpg?v=1781682690","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/kingdom-coming-the-rise-of-christian-nationalism-9780393060942","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}