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Blood Right: Racial Protectionism and the Problem of Christianity in American White Nationalism

Berry, Damon T.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397563389

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2014, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Comparative Studies.
As Betty Dobratz and others have noticed, Christian Identity, a racist and anti-Semitic form of Christian theology that argues that the European peoples are the true Israelites, is no longer the only religious influence in American white nationalism. New religious movements such as Creativity, Cosmotheism, racialized Norse paganism, or Odinism, racialized esotericism and Satanism, and even racist articulations of atheism have become more influential in the white nationalist milieu in the last thirty years. Since the 1970s an increasing number of those involved in white racist activism have rejected Christianity in favor of non-Christian, and often virulently anti-Christian, religious alternatives. I discuss this phenomenon and offer a theory to explain why this shift in religious outlook among American white nationalists has occurred by discussing the most influential persons within the movement. In an engagement with Bergson’s Two Sources of Morality and Religion and Appadurai’s Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger I argue that though the individual expressions differ, a growing number of white nationalists have come to see Christianity as a problem because they regard it as inhibitive of white racial survival because of its “alien,” Jewish origins, and because of its message, from their point of view, of universal love and brotherhood rather than exclusive love of one’s race.
Hugh Urban, Dr. (Advisor)
Michael Barkun, Dr. (Committee Member)
Merrill Kaplan, Dr. (Committee Member)
David Horn, Dr. (Committee Member)
288 p.
American Studies; Ethnic Studies; Religion
Bergson, racism, religion, Odinism, esotericism, racial protectionism, extremism

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  • Berry, D. T. (2014). Blood Right: Racial Protectionism and the Problem of Christianity in American White Nationalism [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397563389

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Berry, Damon. Blood Right: Racial Protectionism and the Problem of Christianity in American White Nationalism. 2014. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397563389.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Berry, Damon. "Blood Right: Racial Protectionism and the Problem of Christianity in American White Nationalism." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397563389

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