Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies Dr. Damon Berry was recently featured on ReligionWise podcast. ReligionWise features educators, researchers, and other professionals discussing their work and the place of religion in the public conversation. Host Chip Gruen, the Director of the Institute for Religious and Cultural Understanding of Muhlenberg College, facilitates conversations that aim to provide better understanding of varieties of religious expression and their impacts on the human experience.
Dr. Berry discusses the "the Alt-Right", "Christian Nationalists", "White Nationalists," and how the ascendency of this powerful force on the right has affected the political and religious landscape of the United States over the last generation. Dr. Berry works to understand these groups from their context and to make their worldview comprehensible to outsiders from the movement. The conversation not only considers some of the political consequences for the 2024 presidential election but considers the development and organization of these groups over the last few decades.
To listen to the podcast click here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1848778/episodes/15752085