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Evangelical Populist Internationalism and the Politics of Persecution

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This article explores the rise of the US movement for persecuted Christians as a form of evangelical internationalism. This internationalism is built on a moral geography that highlights the ties between US evangelicals and Christians in other parts of the world, challenging the isolationist self-regard that American evangelicals are often accused of. This article argues, however, that some important components of the persecuted Christians movement mobilize a common populist trope of an in-group facing attack from outside. Rather than organizing around religious freedom broadly, they construct a narrative of American Christians as part of a victimized and marginalized group, based on their ties with a global Christian community defined as persecuted. Rather than being part of a binary of populism versus internationalism, key parts of the persecuted Christians movement use internationalism to support Christian populism.

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  • Melani McAlister, 2019. "Evangelical Populist Internationalism and the Politics of Persecution," The Review of Faith & International Affairs, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(3), pages 105-117, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:rfiaxx:v:17:y:2019:i:3:p:105-117
    DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2019.1644007
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