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167: Straight White American Jesus (w/Bradley Onishi)

167: Straight White American Jesus (w/Bradley Onishi)

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167: Straight White American Jesus (w/Bradley Onishi)

FromConspirituality

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Length:
85 minutes
Released:
Aug 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dr. Bradley Onishi, is the author of Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism - And What Comes Next. He is the co-host of the excellent Straight White American Jesus podcast. His work has appeared in the New York Times, NBC News, Politico, Rolling Stone, Huffpost, and many other outlets. 
Bradley got personally drawn into evangelical Christianity as a teenager—and from a secular family—and had the strange experience of burying his part-Japanese heritage in a white coded, Christian Nationalist identity. It took him years of scholarship to see how this political ideology had been baked into the religious indoctrination. Now he’s a religious studies scholar, doing work in the world from that perspective. And his struggles with all of this stuff have brought his empathy and his humility up to the surface in really profound ways. 
Bradley has a lot of family history in Maui, and on his behalf and for people there who have just survived a catastrophic fire and now must bury their dead and rebuild, we would like to encourage you to consider donating to the Maui Mutual Aid Fund. 
Show Notes
Straight White American Jesus
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism--and What Comes Next
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Released:
Aug 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

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