Posted on 07/14/2024 10:56:22 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Earlier this year, I read Gionathan Lo Mascolo’s edited collection The Christain Right in Europe: Movements, Networks, and Denominations. I’d initially intended on skimming a couple of chapters but ended up reading it cover-to-cover. The book is an essential resource for anyone trying to understand the global reach of Christian nationalism and connections between the United States and Europe.* Gionathan was kind enough to give an interview in which he discusses several of the essays and issues discussed in the volume.
Wondering how the Nashville Statement influenced Dutch churches? Trying to understand what’s going on in Hungary, or with Putin, the Russian Orthodox Church, and Russian Christian nationalism? Want to learn about a new organization, Faith in Democracy, which Gionathan has helped found to address this global challenge?
Read on…
(Excerpt) Read more at kristindumez.substack.com ...
Other points: the UK never had a “Christian Right” type movement that we’ve had and still has a monarchy.
The French Revolution was markedly different than the US Revolution in its aims and ramifications — so much so that our own founding fathers were alarmed.
Spain had its Civil War in the 20th Century…
We did not have a Nazi takeover the way Germany did (obviously) and the echoes of two massively catastrophic World Wars reverberate much differently in Europe (both East and West) than here…
For starters…
Economically* distinct from USA and from each other as well.
There is almost no Christianity at all left in Europe.
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