Gender, Race, and the Christian Right in the Ascendency of Donald Trump

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Abstract

This roundtable explores the perplexing intersections of gender and race in the Christian Right’s embrace of Donald Trump. We raise such questions as the construction of womanhood, histories of race in evangelicalism, religious exclusivism, biblical literalism, and “fake news.”

Sub Unit

• General Conference / SUBTHEME FOUR: Engaging, Questioning and Transcending the State

Presenters

• Karen Seat, University of Arizona

• Elizabeth Flowers, Texas Christian University

• Eileen Renee Campbell-Reed, Central Baptist Theological Seminary

• Susan Shaw, Oregon State University

• Courtney Pace, Memphis Theological Seminary