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Religious Nationalism and the Coronavirus Pandemic: Soul-Sucking Evangelicals and
Branch Covidians Make America Sick Again
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McLaren P
Postdigit Sci Educ
2020[]; 2
(3
): 700-721
PMID40476991
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This article investigates the response to the coronavirus crisis by Evangelical
Christian nationalists in the USA. The article outlines the curious mediaverse of
religious nationalism-its post-truth and fake news aspects in particular-links
religious nationalism to American exceptionalism, and analyzes conflicts between
secular and religious authorities. Drawing upon some lessons from the past, the
article addresses the wider implications of Christian nationalism on American
politics, and capitalist ideology, as it has been played out virally in the
corporate media. The article shows that the ideological underpinnings of
evangelical Christianity prevent its proponents from understanding the virus in
an historical and materialist manner and points toward more epistemically sound
approaches to relationships between science and religion. It concludes that
privatization, austerity capitalism, and 'gig economy' need to be replaced by
socialist alternatives and seeks inspiration in theory and practice of Marxism
and South American liberation theology.
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