Marcia Pally
religion and politics
America’s New Evangelicals and Their Politics
Campaign Stops STRONG OPINIONS ON THE 2012 ELECTION The New Evangelicals By MARCIA PALLY The New York Times, Dec. 9, 2011 Though public support for both major political parties is very low, one group of voters is usually exempted from this malaise: evangelicals. It’s assumed that at least these “values voters” are getting what they want. … Continue reading
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 and the 2012 election: The kingdoms of faith and politics By Marcia Pally
Evangelicals and the 2012 election: The kingdoms of faith and politics By Marcia Pally We are now past the half-mark in the Republican primaries, and it seems that evangelicals are following tradition—or stereotype–as the religious voting-bloc outlier. Yet a look at the numbers suggests that evangelicals are not voting as a bloc, laminated together by … Continue reading
The Religious Re-direct: Religions and elections in America
The Religious Re-direct: Religions and elections in America By Marcia Pally Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 30, 2010 For over a century, religiosity in America has been greater, more committed, and more populist than in any other industrialized country. Though today, South Korea sends missionaries to the US, on the view that we are not devout … Continue reading
Christian Humanist Interview with Marcia Pally
The Christian Humanist interviews Marcia Pally on Commonwealth and Covenant and on relationality, economics, and politics. Click here
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.
