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The Religious Nationalism PodcastIrish and American Catholics, social theory, and political traditionsIn this episode, D. G. Hart and Crawford Gribben compare their recent books, "American Catholic: The politics of faith during the Cold War" and "The rise and fall of Christian Ireland," thinking about how the similar religious traditions they describe can interact with different political cultures, and with very different results.
For further reading:
D. G. Hart, American Catholic: The politics of faith during the Cold War
Crawford Gribben, The rise and fall of Christian Ireland
Michael Brendan Dougherty, My father left me Ireland
Gribben's review of Dougherty, My f...
2021-10-2941 minThe Religious Nationalism PodcastReligious nationalism in Russia, with Alex TitovIn episode 13, Darryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk to Alex Titov about religious nationalism in Russia. Alex teaches history at Queen's University Belfast, where his research and teaching focus on Russian nationalism, foreign policy, the political history of the USSR, and the biography of Nikita Khrushchev. Alex is a prolific journalist and a frequent broadcaster. You can follow his work on Twitter at @TitovAlexander.
Where now for Team Navalny?
The opposition in Russia can defeat Putin – but only if its message chimes with an impoverished country
Alexei Navalny: Novichok didn’t stop Russian oppo...
2021-09-0645 min
The Religious Nationalism PodcastReligious nationalism in early modern Spain, with Dave StewartIn episode 12, Darryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk to Dave Stewart about religious nationalism in early modern Spain. Dave is professor of history at Hillsdale College, MI, and a scholar of religious identities in early modern France and Spain. How did the fifteenth-century re-conquest of the Iberian peninsula contribute to the emergence of a distinct sense of religious responsibility in the Mediterranean and Atlantic worlds? Why did protestant reform make such little impact in the region? And how did the political turbulence of the nineteenth century feed into the social and political pressures that erupted in civil war and...
2021-06-151h 00The Religious Nationalism PodcastEpisode 11! With Ullrich Langer on religious nationalism in early modern FranceNational identities based on church membership may have come more readily to Protestant countries in Europe, but Catholic kingdoms and nations also drew heavily on Christian identity. The case of France, the subject of this episode, is an important reminder of the way that the Catholic Church was entangled in the political institutions (in this case, the monarchy) and cultural expectations that gave the French a unique identity. The French Revolution, which eventually took an anti-clerical turn, did fundamentally reset the terms of French national identity. But the legacy of the medieval church, the Reformation, religious wars, and the Edi...
2021-05-3157 min
New Books in Catholic StudiesD. G. Hart, "American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)In American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2020), Darryl Hart's addresses the foundational changes in thinking about church-state relations within American Catholicism that contributed so much to the development of the modern conservative movement. Hart tracks the ways in which American Catholics adapted their tradition in the context of a largely protestant republic, and offers detailed and nuanced readings of the controversies and achievements that this engendered. As American conservatism continues to adapt, and as President Biden's Catholic faith continues to be politicised, this book makes for essential reading.Crawford Gribben is a profes...
2021-05-2538 min
New Books in Christian StudiesD. G. Hart, "American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)In American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2020), Darryl Hart's addresses the foundational changes in thinking about church-state relations within American Catholicism that contributed so much to the development of the modern conservative movement. Hart tracks the ways in which American Catholics adapted their tradition in the context of a largely protestant republic, and offers detailed and nuanced readings of the controversies and achievements that this engendered. As American conservatism continues to adapt, and as President Biden's Catholic faith continues to be politicised, this book makes for essential reading.Crawford Gribben is a profes...
2021-05-2539 minThe Religious Nationalism PodcastHow Roman Catholic Conservatives Saved Christian AmericaThis recorded lecture, sponsored by the History Department, took place at Hillsdale College on April 15, 2021 to promote D. G. Hart's new book, American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War (Cornell University Press). It is a companion piece to an earlier episode with Daniel McCarthy on Roman Catholics and Christian nationalism in the U.S.
Below is a bibliography of works mentioned in the presentation:
Paul Blanshard, American Freedom and Catholic Power (Beacon, 1949)
William F. Buckley, Jr., God and Man at Yale (Regnery, 1951)
John Courtney Murray, We Hold These Tru...
2021-05-0454 minThe Religious Nationalism PodcastAdam Mestyan, Arab patriotism and pan-Arab nationalismIn episode 9, Darryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk to Adam Mestyan. Adam teaches history at Duke University, NC, and is the author and editor of numerous books and articles, including Arab patriotism: The ideology and culture of power in late Ottoman Egypt (2017) and Primordial history, print capitalism, and Egyptology in nineteenth-century Cairo: Muṣṭafā Salāma al-Naǧǧārī’s The Garden of Ismail’s Praise (2021), along with numerous scholarly articles and publications in venues such as Aeon. You can learn more about Adam's work on Twitter at @adammestyan.
2021-04-2051 minThe Religious Nationalism PodcastAmerican Catholics and liberalism, with Daniel McCarthyIn episode 8, Darryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk to Daniel McCarthy about "Americanism" - the effort by many American Catholics to fit the church's teachings to the constitutional and cultural expectations of the republic - and the efforts made by integralists to resist it. Dan is well-known as the editor of Modern Age, as a contributor to The Spectator and as a visiting fellow at the Center for the Study of Statesmanship at the Catholic University of America. Dan also runs the Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship Program at the Fund for American Studies (currently open for applications).
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2021-03-2445 minThe Religious Nationalism PodcastThe "putsch" at the US Capitol, and Christian Zionism, with Samuel GoldmanDarryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk to Samuel Goldman, who teaches political science at George Washington University, DC, about the "putsch" at the US Capitol, and Jewish and Christian Zionism. Samuel is well-known as the author of God’s Country: Christian Zionism in America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) and of articles and op-eds in venues such as Modern Age: A Conservative Quarterly and The American Conservative, as well as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. His next book - After Nationalism - will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in early 2021. You can follow hi...
2021-01-1149 minThe Religious Nationalism PodcastAmerican evangelicals, missions, and internationalism, with Melani McAlisterDarryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk to Melani McAlister about American evangelicals, international missions, and national identity. Melani is professor of American Studies and International Affairs at the George Washington University, in Washington DC, and the author of Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East since 1945 and The Kingdom of God Has No Borders: A Global History of American Evangelicals, along with many popular and scholarly articles. She is currently editing volume 4 of The Cambridge History of America and the World.
You can read more about Melani's work here:
"Prophecy, Pol...
2020-12-211h 04The Religious Nationalism PodcastNationalism, unionism and religion in Scotland and Northern Ireland, with Graham WalkerDarryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk to Graham Walker about nationalism, unionism and religion in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Graham is professor of politics at Queen's University Belfast, and the author of numerous articles and books including The Labour Party in Scotland: Religion, The Union and the Irish Dimension (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Further reading:
A history of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, pragmatism and pessimism (Manchester Studies in Modern History, Manchester UP)
“The Religion Factor” in The Oxford Handbook of Modern Scottish History
"Scotland's Sectarianism Problem: Irish Answers?" The Political Quarterly
“The U...
2020-11-3055 min
Nationalism and the Culture Wars podcastEthnicity, culture and religious nationalism, with Eric KaufmannDarryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk about ethnicity, culture and religious nationalism to Eric Kaufmann. Eric is professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London, and the author of numerous articles and many books, including most recently "White shift: Populism, immigration and the future of white majorities" (Penguin 2018).
2020-11-191h 25The Religious Nationalism PodcastEthnicity, culture and religious nationalism, with Eric KaufmannDarryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk about ethnicity, culture and religious nationalism to Eric Kaufmann. Eric is professor of politics at Birkbeck, University of London, and the author of numerous articles and many books, including most recently "White shift: Populism, immigration and the future of white majorities" (Penguin 2018).
2020-11-1649 minThe Religious Nationalism PodcastAmerican evangelicals, with Daniel K. WilliamsDarryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk about American evangelicals and Christian nationalism to Daniel K. Williams, author of God’s Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (Oxford University Press, 2010), Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement before Roe v. Wade (Oxford University Press, 2016), and The Election of the Evangelical: Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976 (University Press of Kansas, 2020), along with numerous essays.
2020-10-2652 minThe Religious Nationalism PodcastAmerican Catholics, culture and politics, with Kenneth L. WoodwardDarryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk to Kenneth Woodward, religion editor of Newsweek for 38 years, prolific essayist, and author most recently of Getting Religion: Faith, Culture and Politics from the Age of Eisenhower to the Ascent of Trump (second edition, Penguin, 2017).
2020-10-1958 minThe Religious Nationalism PodcastAmerican religious nationalism, with Sam HaselbyDarryl Hart and Crawford Gribben talk to Sam Haselby, author of The origins of American religious nationalism (Oxford UP, 2015), senior editor at Aeon.co, and prolific essayist. You can follow Sam on Twitter at @SamHaselby.
2020-10-0245 min