15 years ago in is your mike on . There we go. Thank you. Theres a switch on the mikes. 15 years ago in a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted,lin religions continue importance contains analysis. In political history religion has retained in butlers e voktive term, a jack in the box. Left to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today our round table will address how religion matters in american political history and well do so in three ways. First ill each each panelist to focus on a way in which religion matters. That is in their own research how religion plays a role and in spaces they are working on but also how centering religion gives us a different narrative, a different story than if it were on the periphery. Second well talk about butlers provocati provocation. Why have political historians remain reluctant bystanders about religion in American History and why do
To climate hell with no sign of slowing down and that humanity needed to co operate or perish. Now on bbc news. America, faith on the frontline. This country belongs to god almighty a powerful minority is on the rise with a particular vision of america. You cannot separate god from politics. You cannot take him out of our government. It is one of the oldest and most influential currents in us politics but in a country deeply divided, the Christian Right has found a new voice. We desire to live in a Judaeo Christian nation with Judaeo Christian values. It claims christianity is under attack and that god belongs in government. With pastors preaching its message in churches and its beliefs Guiding Ultraconservative candidates in the mid term elections. Im a christian, i say we should be the movement is 90 minutes Christian Nationalism and the far right is taking it to the extreme. We are the christian taliban. Some warn this is fundamentally undemocratic. It was amplified by donald trump.
Apparently mutual with trump regularly expressing his admiration of putins strength. Today, however, The American President seemed to place his russian counterpart on the other side of a purported war against Western Civilisation. During a speech in the polish capital, warsaw, he called on russia to stop destabilising ukraine and other countries and to end support for hostile regimes such as those in syria and iran. With the pair due to meet tomorrow at the 620 summit in hamburg, newsnights diplomatic editor mark urban has been exploring The American President s apocalyptic warning. Its the president s second visit to europe and todays speech was billed as a big Foreign Policy moment. Given in warsaws Krasinski Square in front of a memorial to the 191m uprising against the nazis, an appreciative audience had been brought in by the polish government. It fell to the first lady to do the warm up. The president of the United States, donald] trump. And with that, trump set out his stall of
As the country prepares to elect a new President Polls suggest record levels of apathy and disillusion among french voters. A spate of Terror Attacks has sown insecurity and sparked a heated debate about immigration, islam and frances identity. My guest today is pascal bruckner, a writer and Public Intellectual in the grand french tradition. Is france living through an age of decline . Pascal bruckner, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. We are talking with a french president ial election very close. Does france feel ripe for the sort of political shock that weve seen in recent times both in the uk over the brexit vote and in the United States with the victory of donald trump in the president ial election . I hope not, with all my heart i hope we wont face the same electoral results that you had with brexit and that the americans had with trump. So were doing everything to avoid the passage to the far right with Marine Le Pen. But at the present time we have two opposite candidates, jean l