CAH Public Lecture: “Christian Nationalism, the Religious Right, and the 2024 Election” by Dr. Matthew Sutton
Oct. 8, 6–7 p.m.
Neill Public Library, Pullman
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Description: Sutton’s talk will focus on the history of religion in American politics, with an eye towards the November election. He will focus on Americans’ changing views across time of the religion clauses of the First Amendment, religious activists’ broad and diverse forms of political engagement, and, finally, the rise of the religious right. Today, evangelicals are the largest and most reliable multi-issue interest group in the GOP. Sutton will explain how this group of Christians is influencing contemporary politics.
Speaker Bio: Matthew Avery Sutton is the Berry Family Distinguished Professor in the Liberal Arts and the chair of the Department of History at Washington State University. His most recent book is Double Crossed: The Missionaries Who Spied for the United States During the Second World War (Basic Books, 2019). He is also the author of American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014), and Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America (Harvard University Press, 2007). He has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Republic. In 2016 he was appointed a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.
