Marcia Pally
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Donald Trump: Apostle of America’s Civil Religion
Donald Trump: Apostle of America’s Civil Religion By Marcia Pally Religion and Ethics 16 Nov 2016 Trump gives voice, not only to American discontent, but to its political faith that it will be solved by ‘booting the bums out’. The more he preaches, the more he taps into the national creed. Before and since the … Continue reading
Evangelicals, Right-wing Populism, Trump: Not a Faustian Bargain
Evangelicals, Right-wing Populism, Trump: Not a Faustian Bargain Published in Theologische Literaturzeitung, Nov. 2019, pp 1084-1102. Introduction The 81 percent of white American evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump in 20161 drew substantial attention as it seemed that one of America’s most devout faith groups supported a politician who was not only twice divorced but had … Continue reading
Trump, Cruz: Saviors of the Idolatrous Kind
Trump, long up in the polls, stays up; Cruz is rising. What do they have in common? Savior appeal. Of the idolatrous kind. BY MARCIA PALLY DECEMBER 18, 2015 False Saviors: Trump, Cruz, and the Gospel of the Quick Fix The two front-runners differ is some ways—among likely caucus voters in Iowa, Bloomberg News reports, Trump … Continue reading
Machiavelli on the Potomac: What Will Donald Trump Do Now?
Machiavelli on the Potomac: What Will Donald Trump Do Now? Marcia Pally Religion & Ethics Friday 27 January 2017 Marcia Pally is a Professor at New York University in Multilingual Multicultural Studies and a permanent Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities. Her most recent book is Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of … Continue reading
Redeeming Populism: The Promise of a Liberal Covenanted Republic
Redeeming Populism: The Promise of a Liberal Covenanted Republic By Marcia Pally ABC Religion and Ethics 3 May 2018 What makes populism work? Earlier this year, New York Times columnist David Brooks told NPR that, because “populism has deep roots in America,” he believed “Bannonism” would outlive “Trumpism” as a decisive influence in elections and public policy. By “Bannonism,” Brooks meant … Continue reading
The U.S. is a representative democracy? Thoughts—and humor–on politics in the Trump era
The U.S. is a representative democracy? Thoughts—and humor–on politics in the Trump era By Marcia Pally Die Tageszeitung January 20, 2017 as: “Das ‘We the people’ Gefuhl”` Visiting Europe since the Trump election, I’m not infrequently asked if, by being bad for American workers, Trump will re-invigorate the American left. There’s an American left? There was a … Continue reading
Populist, Nativist, Isolationist: For Trump, It Was All of the Above
Populist, Nativist, Isolationist: For Trump, It Was All of the Above by Marcia Pally COMMONWEAL, November 22, 2016 They wanted “change,” he promised change, and change most of all from the lying, corrupt, incompetent government of the last eight years. He differed from all candidates before, and in an exercise of popular will against expectations and … Continue reading
Populism, Politics, and the 2016 US Presidential Election
“American Populism, Present Politics, and the 2016 presidential election” by Marcia Pally VIDEO: Presented at The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, Oct. 21, 2016
Trump: Why American Doesn’t Know What to Do With Government
“Trump, American Populism, and Why American doesn’t know what to do with its own government,” By Marcia Pally VIDEO: Presented at Humboldt University-Berlin. Jan. 9, 2017 Please note: After the brief introduction in German, the presentation is in English.
‘Throw the bastards out’: an American tradition from settlers to Trump
‘Throw the bastards out’: an American tradition from settlers to Trump by Marcia Pally Thursday 8 September 2016 11.00 BST This past summer, I was guest-teaching in Europe. When the talk of the town wasn’t Brexit, it was the US election. It was discussed the way you’d discuss an alien invasion: bizarre. A look at … Continue reading
Marcia Pally
New York University, Fordham University, and annual guest professor at the Theology Faculty of Humboldt University, Berlin. Research interests: religion, culture, and politics and the intersection of language and culture.
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New Release: Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality
Commonwealth and Covenant: Economics, Politics, and Theologies of Relationality (2016), nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in religion.and selected by the U.N.'s Committee on Education for Justice to be distributed to “educators, academics, policy-makers...throughout the world.”
Mimesis and Sacrifice
Mimesis and Sacrifice (Ed., 2019), this edited volume by an inter-disciplinary and international groups of scholars looks at the ethics of how notions of sacrifice are used in contemporary life, from the military and business to gender relation and politics.
America’s New Evangelicals
The New Evangelicals (2011), a brief history of American evangelicalism and in-depth interviews of evangelicals who have left the right.
