White Christian Nationalism as a State‐Organized Social Movement
Journal: New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education
Year: 2025

ABSTRACT The rapidly growing body of scholarship exploring White Christian nationalism in the United States has generated criticism for a lack of conceptual specificity. To address this shortcoming, we propose conceptualizing White Christian nationalism as a social movement. We explore how this conceptualization improves on past frameworks and offers new directions for White Christian nationalism scholarship. In particular, we consider the recent political successes of the movement and the impli