ABSTRACT
The Introduction first introduces the approaches taken to study white evangelical support for right-wing populism, including not only political science but cultural history and social psychology. It defines populism as: a way of understanding and responding to economic, status loss, and way-of-life duresses that finds the solution in us-them binaries, strong or weak, that draw in mediated ways from the historico-cultural background of the society where the populism is situated (for instance, a “them” of Latin American immigrants in the US and of the Roma in central Europe). In six points, the Intro sketches how white evangelical support for right-wing populism fulfills definition criteria: the duresses, the important binaries, and the key aspects of the historico-cultural background that contribute to those binaries. This serves as an overview of the book's argument. The chapter closes with a discussion of why white evangelical support for right-wing populism is important followed by a sketch of each chapter.
