According to Michael Barkun, many white supremacist groups of the radical right, such as the Aryan Nations, the Order, the Posse Comitatus, and elements of the Ku Klux Klan, are deeply committed to the distinctive but little-recognized religious position known as Christian Identity. In Religion and...

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Main Author:	Barkun, Michael 1938- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill u.a. Univ. of North Carolina Press 1994
Subjects:	Anglo-israélisme - États-Unis - Histoire Antisemitisme Christian Identity Mouvements pour la suprématie blanche - États-Unis - Histoire Geschichte Anglo-Israelism > United States > History White supremacy movements > United States > History Rassismus Antisemitismus Christ États-Unis - Relations raciales USA United States > Race relations
Summary:	According to Michael Barkun, many white supremacist groups of the radical right, such as the Aryan Nations, the Order, the Posse Comitatus, and elements of the Ku Klux Klan, are deeply committed to the distinctive but little-recognized religious position known as Christian Identity. In Religion and the Racist Right, Barkun provides the first sustained exploration of the ideological and organizational development of the Christian Identity movement Describing its origins in a small but vigorous movement in Victorian England called British-Israelism, Barkun traces the fascinating history of Christian Identity as it traveled from England to America and developed into a virulently anti-Semitic theology based on a vision of the world on the verge of an apocalyptic struggle between good and evil According to the tenets of Christian Identity, this struggle will take the form of a race war in which Aryans, the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel, will battle against Jews, the descendants of the Devil
Physical Description:	XIII, 290 S.
ISBN:	0807821454 0807844519