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Beyond Whiteness: Conservatism and Fascism in Asian American Evangelical and Catholic Communities

Straight White American Jesus

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The Problem With Religious Spaces

I think where the problem comes in is when religion gets grafted to the nation state, right? And when that energy then gets melded into what, you know, political theorists by called the archepolitical space of liberal descensus, that religious energy and political energy becomes contained. That then serves the propagation of the nation state rather than actually get us thinking beyond its forms. It's one of the ways that we think about how those communities tend without naturally naturalizing the fact that they all tend that way.

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