The Annual Ato Quayson Lecture in DTS: Theocracy Now! The Global Vision of U.S. Christian Nationalism with Professor Bethany Moreton
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*Lecture from 5:30 -7:00pm and reception from 7:00 - 7:30pm*
About the lecture:
When Christian nationalists tell us what they want, we should take them at their word. From the Bolshevik Revolution and the Spanish Civil War through MAGA’s unapologetic fascism, U.S. theocrats have forged international alliances to enforce sexual conformity, racial purity, and gender rigidity. In the twenty-first century, their ranks have been joined by unlikely recruits: Silicon Valley’s techno-libertarians are the latest entrepreneurs of American religious revival with global ambitions. Dismissed for decades as mere distractions from the weighty matters of law and economics, theocrats aspire to a sacred market order—and they think they are winning.
Bethany Moreton is Professor of History at Dartmouth College. She co-edits the Columbia University Press book series Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism. Her work includes Perverse Incentives: Economics as Culture War (forthcoming from Zone Books/Near Futures, Princeton University Press); Entre Dios y el Capital (Txalaparta, España, 2022); and To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard, 2009), which won the OAH’s Frederick Jackson Turner Award and the ASA’s John Hope Franklin Prize. With historians Gill Frank and Heather White, she co-edited Devotions and Desires: Histories of Religion and Sexuality in the Twentieth-Century United States, (UNC, 2017), as well as single-authoring articles and book chapters on the conservative intersections of religion, sex, and economics. With Pamela Voekel and Lorgia Garcia-Peña, in 2011 she co-founded Freedom University-Georgia to provide free university-level coursework to Georgia high-school graduates banned from public campuses because of their immigration status, a mission it continues to fulfill.