__Andrew L. Whitehead__ (PhD, Baylor University) is associate professor of sociology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where he codirects the Association of Religion Data Archives at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture. He is the coauthor of Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States, which won the 2021 Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Whitehead has written for the Washington Post, NBC News, Time, and Religion News Service and speaks frequently about Christian nationalism.

Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.  
  
Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey and reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church.  
  
Whitehead shows how Christians harm their neighbors when they embrace the idols of power, fear, and violence. He uses two key examples--racism and xenophobia--to demonstrate that these idols violate core Christian beliefs. Through stories, he illuminates expressions of Christianity that confront Christian nationalism and offer a faithful path forward.  
  
American Idolatry encourages further conversation about what Christian nationalism threatens, how to face it, and why it is vitally important to do so. It will help identify Christian nationalism and build a framework that makes sense of the relationship between faith and the current political and cultural context.

An expert on Christian nationalism identifies three areas--power, fear, and violence--where nationalism conflicts with core gospel beliefs and reveals its theological and spiritual costs in the church before pointing a way forward.

__Contents__ 1. A Hollow and Deceptive Philosophy  
2. What Is Christian Nationalism?  
3. Turn the Other Cheek?  
4. Do Not Be Afraid?  
5. Lay Down Your Sword?  
6. May Your Kingdom Come, on Earth as It Is in Heaven?  
7. And Who Is My Neighbor?  
8. Conclusion

Whitehead, Andrew L.

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2024 Midwest Book Award Winner in Religion &amp; Philosophy  
  
Power. Fear. Violence. These three idols of Christian nationalism are corrupting American Christianity.  
  
Andrew Whitehead is a leading scholar on Christian nationalism in America and speaks widely on its effects within Christian communities. In this book, he shares his journey and reveals how Christian nationalism threatens the spiritual lives of American Christians and the church.  
  
Sharing stories from pastors, teachers, and other lay Christians, Whitehead explores  
  
● the harm we cause our neighbors when we embrace the idols of power, fear, and violence  
● key examples that demonstrate how these idols violate core Christian beliefs  
● expressions of Christianity that confront Christian nationalism  
● the work we can do to disentangle Christianity from Christian nationalism  
● a faithful path forward, embodying the life and teachings of Jesus and the gospel  
  
"Heartfelt, incisive, and worthy of thoughtful consideration."--Library Journal  
  
"A fascinating investigation of politics and racism in American Christian evangelicalism."--Foreword Reviews

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