The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy

In 2022, a Pew Research Center survey found a stunning 60% of respondents thought the U.S. founders intended the country to be a Christian nation. Many have apparently not read the Constitution, as the idea is specifically denied by the First Amendment (part of the Bill of Rights and ratified in 1791, a few years after the Constitution). Philip Gorski, chair of the Yale University Sociology Department and a former associate professor at UW-Madison, has been studying Christian nationalism for many years, and is co-author of The Flag and the Cross (with Samuel Perry). Gorski will discuss the subject during a virtual talk hosted by the Havens-Wright Center; find registration info at havenswrightcenter.wisc.edu.

media release: UW Havens-Wright Center online event. If you would like to attend online, you must register in advance.

Phil Gorski is the Frederick and Laura Goff Professor and chair of the Sociology Department at Yale University. His research focuses on religion and politics in early modern and modern Europe and North America. His recent work focuses on Christian Nationalism in the United States.