{"id":75207,"date":"2019-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/journalist-professor-of-history-to-lecture-on-complicated-relationship-between-religion-politics\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T00:00:00","slug":"journalist-professor-of-history-to-lecture-on-complicated-relationship-between-religion-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/journalist-professor-of-history-to-lecture-on-complicated-relationship-between-religion-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist, professor of history to lecture on complicated relationship between religion, politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — November 18, 2019 — Molly Worthen, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has extensively researched North American religious and intellectual history.<\/p>\n

She will bring her extensive knowledge to the 溏心vlog免费B站 as part of her lecture, \u201cEvangelicals and Trump: An Alliance with a Long History,\u201d Tuesday, Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. in Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road, on the Kingston Campus. The lecture, part of the 溏心vlog免费B站 Honors Colloquium, \u201cReligion in America,\u201d is free and open to the public. It will be livestreamed<\/a> and archived.<\/p>\n

Her lecture will center on evangelical Christians who are vocal supporters of President Donald Trump. She notes that since Trump\u2019s election, many people have debated why evangelical Christians support Trump\u2019s decisions, given his colorful history and demonstration of ideals she says are not in line with the Christian faith.<\/p>\n

Worthen points out that evangelicals and outsiders alike have offered dozens of explanations, ranging from the claim that white evangelicals are single-issue voters who care about banning abortion more than anything else, to the suggestion that a white vote for Trump was a vote for racism, pure and simple. For Worthen, it\u2019s history, not present-day politics or prejudice, that holds the most satisfying answer. A careful look at the whole sweep of white evangelical history since colonial times helps us understand that their alliance with Trump should not have surprised anyone\u2014because it has been centuries in the making.<\/p>\n

She delves into why many see this correlation as an oxymoron, but then will dissect why it\u2019s not present-day politics or prejudice that inform Trump\u2019s loyal evangelical supporters. Rather it\u2019s the history behind white evangelical politics that best explains this alliance.<\/p>\n

Worthen is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a freelance journalist. She earned her bachelor\u2019s degree and her doctorate from Yale University. Her research focuses on North American religious and intellectual history. Her most recent book, Apostles of Reason, <\/em>examines American evangelical intellectual life since 1945, especially the internal conflicts among different evangelical subcultures.<\/p>\n

Worthen lectures widely on religion and politics and teaches courses on North American religious and intellectual culture, global Christianity, and the history of ideas. She is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times<\/em> and has written about religion and politics for The<\/em> New Yorker, Slate<\/em>, the American Prospect, <\/em>and Foreign Policy, <\/em>among other publications.<\/p>\n

Lauren Poirier, an intern in the Marketing and Communications Department at 溏心vlog免费B站 and public relations and English major, wrote this press release.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — November 18, 2019 — Molly Worthen, an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has extensively researched North American religious and intellectual history. She will bring her extensive knowledge to the 溏心vlog免费B站 as part of her lecture, \u201cEvangelicals and Trump: An Alliance with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}