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Recent research shows that Americans who adhere to Christian nationalism--an ideology that idealizes and advocates a fusion of Christianity and American civic life--tend to hold authoritarian and exclusionary attitudes, particularly regarding ethno-racial minorities and nontraditional family forms. Such findings suggest a fundamental connection between Christian nationalism and rigid symbolic boundaries, which would likely extend to Americans' understanding of gender roles. Drawing on notions connecting religious nationalism with defenses of patriarchal norms and utilizing a recent national, random sample of American adults, the current study examines the link between contemporary Christian nationalism and traditionalist gender ideologies. Our analyses reveal that Christian nationalism is the strongest predictor of holding a more traditionalist gender ideology, even after taking into account a host of political and religious characteristics. Moreover, the relationship between Christian nationalism and gender traditionalism holds across religious traditions, including more gender-egalitarian groups like Mainline Protestants and even the unaffiliated. We conclude by highlighting the implications of these findings for understanding contemporary populist support for Donald Trump, which previous studies have shown is undergirded by both Christian nationalism and sexism. Des recherches recentes demontrent que les adeptes americains du nationalisme Chretien--ideologie qui promeut de maniere idealiste une fusion du christianisme et de la vie civile americaine--tendent a arborer une attitude autoritaire et sectaire, particulierement en ce qui a trait aux minorites ethnoraciales et aux organisations familiales non traditionnelles. De telles conclusions suggerent un rapport fondamental entre le nationalisme chretien et des bornes symboliques rigides qui s'etendent vraisemblablement a la maniere dont les Americains comprennent le role des sexes. S'inspirant des notions reliant le nationalisme chretien a la defense des normes patriarcales et utilisant un echantillon aleatoire recent d'adultes americains, l'etude actuelle examine le lien qui existe entre le nationalisme chretien actuel et l'ideologie traditionnelle sur les sexes. Nos resultats revelent que le nationalisme chretien constitue le plus fort predicteur de l'adoption d'une ideologie plus traditionnelle sur les sexes, meme en tenant compte d'une multitude de facteurs politiques et religieux. Qui plus est, le lien entre nationalisme chretien et traditionalisme quant au role des sexes se retrouve dans toutes les traditions religieuses, y compris des groupes plus egalitaires quant au sexe comme les grandes eglises protestantes et meme les eglises non affiliees. Nous pouvons conclure en soulignant comment s'appliquent ces resultats a la comprehension du soutien populiste actuel dont jouit Donald Trump qui, comme des etudes precedentes l'ont demontre, est sous-tendu tant par le nationalisme chretien que par le sexisme., A PERSISTENT AND PROMINENT narrative deployed by Donald Trump, both as a populist candidate and as a president, is that America must return to her Christian roots (Gorski 2017b; Jenkins [...]

Abstract As part of its 'white Canada' policy, Canadian officials denied entry to 376 Indian immigrants who arrived aboard the Komagata Maru in 1914. Although the Komagata Maru affair was [...]

Introduction READ ANY TEXTBOOK ACCOUNT OF INTERWAR EUROPE, and 'indifference to nation' is not likely to figure as a heading. On the contrary, the talk will be of untrammeled nationalist [...]

Dewey's critique of nationalism is primarily a critique of the ambitions of great powers. He was unaware of the aspirations of small nations, and his critique has less relevance for small-nation nationalism. In fact, as a communitarian, he should have been a supporter. But he also believed that science and technology are pushing mankind towards unity. The ideal society is to be cosmopolitan, democratic and secular, with everyone relying on the scientific method for beliefs. An American nationalist, he believed in America's special link with democracy, in her mission to lead mankind, and saw America as a model of cosmopolitanism. However, he never made clear whether he saw America as a melting pot forming a new nation or as a mosaic. As a result, the status of nationality in the cosmopolitan humanity of the future remains unclear. Keywords: Nationalism, John Dewey, Stasys Salkauskis, United States, Cosmopolitanism, Americanism., John Dewey's short essay 'The Fruits of Nationalism,' published in 1927, is one of many critiques of nationalism by American intellectuals dating to the decades between the world wars. Nationalism [...]

But it is only an illusion that nationalism's goal is a state. Although 'organic' national states look like a natural product of the idea about an 'organic' nation and defensive [...]

Abstract: The political trajectories of the post-Soviet states are varied, with democracy being the outcome in only a minority of these countries. The different outcomes are striking, given the similarity [...]

As host of the 2006 soccer World Cup in June and July 2006, Germany was suddenly full of different Germans, waving millions of black-red-gold mini flags and wearing their (and [...]

THE GOLDEN AGE OF HISTORY as an academic discipline was the era of nationalisms, because modern social science history was created in the form of national historical narratives. (1) This [...]

Mikhail Bakhtin's central insight that complex political, ideological, and social conflicts in any society permeate and constitute the play of language and discourse in and between societies offers a heuristic [...]

Communal Conflict: An Introduction The current spate of communal violence - violence among groups that define themselves by differences in their respective religions, ethnicity, language or race - is one [...]

population of the Croatian and Bosnian territories held by Serbian forces in mid-1994 - have produced enormous antagonisms and created a situation in which a long-term strategy of low-level guerilla [...]

Driving through the rolling Transylvanian countryside from Cluj toward Tirgu-Mures one wintry Sunday afternoon some six weeks after the fall of Ceausescu in December 1989, I passed a group of [...]

THE RISE OF EUROPE'S LITTLE NATIONS The formation of the European Community and the end of the Cold War had one common and quite unintended result: Both gave encouragement to [...]

At their outset at least, the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona appeared to be organized by people who had nationalism, not sports, foremost in mind. Consider the curious fact that [...]

Introduction It is safe to contend that many individuals might not consider it insulting to be referred to as ethnonationalists, because the concept generally implies the love for one's ethnic [...]

After two centuries and 41 presidents, it is perhaps understandable that we take for granted today what remains the greatest political miracle of all time: the United States of America. [...]

The impasse within the theoretical formulation of 'nation' and 'nationalism' can be found in various definitions, anthologies, and individual volumes (see Hutchinson and Smith; Bhabha; Balkrishnan; Beiner). Ernest Renan, for [...]

Political discourse is critical to the legitimisation of China's ruling elite and critically informs its formulation and execution of political action. This study explores the theme of victimhood in China's contemporary political discourse. The constructed nature of political discourse--the `official story' in Benedict Anderson's phrase--draws upon a range of supporting sources. Of central importance is the role of history and one of its key features is the portrayal of China as victim. This offers a distinctive pole of identificatory attachment for the construction of a modernist reading of national Chinese political identity. The study conducts discourse analyses of three primary texts. It is concluded that objectified discursive power remains an influential factor in Chinese politics. 'Without legitimacy words are invalid; invalid words lead man to nowhere' (Mingbuzheng zhe yanbushun; yanbushun zhe shibucheng) --Confucius, Introduction This study explores the nature and role played by culture in the construction of China's evolving political discourse with specific reference to a discursive theme of 'victimhood.' The reason [...]

The Politics of Identities in Post-Soviet Eurasia The comfortable notion that deep-lying stable cultural differences are fundamental to ethnic and national conflicts has taken a beating in recent scholarship. Essentialist, [...]

Introduction As the ideological influence of Marxism is disintegrating in most regions of Eastern Europe, evangelical missions from the West, particularly from North America, have proliferated. New strategic political and [...]

I. History and Religious Demography The Bulgarian state was founded in 681 C.E. Until the mid-ninth century, the population was pagan, with two different polytheistic strands: the Bulgars or proto-Bulgarians [...]

Introduction The successor states of the former Yugoslavia are Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. After 1992 only two of them remained in a federal union that still bears [...]

The religious situation in Romania defies any brief or simple analysis. In the 1980's the religious communities, both the registered and the unregistered, found themselves in the midst of a [...]

I. The Ambiguity of the Research on the Orthodox Church in Romania There are many entry points into the current religious and political situation of Romania. Both old and new [...]

This essay seeks to describe, from a historical perspective, the current situation and intricate problems of mission and proselytizing in Hungary. One cannot, however, isolate the churches' missionary activities and [...]

I. Slovak History: A Witness to Violent Proselytism and Intolerance 'It is unbelievable how many spiritual movements in the current of history have passed across the real life stage of [...]

I. Historical and Sociopsychological Context An understanding of proselytism in the Polish context requires an overview of historical facts that have shaped the contemporary role of religion in the country. [...]

Political Ideology as a Secular Religion Sociologists of religion define secularization as the sum total of the process of weakening of the social meaning of religion, as a process of [...]

In a series of projects conducted over the past decade, the Law and Religion Program of Emory University in Atlanta has explored the religious sources and dimensions of human rights [...]

Each August, as festival-goers descend on Edinburgh like an army of insatiable lotus-eaters, my thoughts turn to Robert Garioch and his most famous poem, 'Embro to the Ploy'. 'The Ploy', [...]