American Dominion: The Rise and Radicalization of a New Christendom

How did a predictable “family values” evangelical politics become the engine of an anti-democratic movement with unprecedented access to American power? Keri Ladner traces that transformation through the rise of dominionism-a radical strain of evangelical Christianity that frames political authority as a biblical mandate and treats democracy less as a safeguard than as an obstacle to overcome.
Ladner argues that the alliance between Donald Trump and the evangelical right cannot be explained...