Evangelical Populist Internationalism and the Politics of Persecution

McAlister, Melani

doi:10.1080/15570274.2019.1644007

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“…Similarly, Melani McAlister argues that the religious freedom lobby in the United States travels comfortably with the populist agenda of some individuals within the Republican Party, having enjoyed the support of prominent members of the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021. 26 The impediments to faith-based groups referenced by Rasche above likely relate to unease in bureaucratic ranks about the ideological relationship between populists in the White House and promotion of the rights of minorities abroad.…”

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Enabling Oblivion: Global Activism and the Erasure of Middle Eastern Christians

Rowe

2022

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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The relative ignorance of Armenian narratives in the analysis of current affairs in the Middle East raised by several authors in this roundtable is symptomatic of a larger problem facing ethno-religious minorities in the region. Until the 1990s, Western exposure to Middle Eastern Christianity in both academic and popular contexts was minimal at best. Outside specific studies of notable groups, scholars largely ignored non-Muslim religious sects. At the level of popular discourse, political Islam had illuminated the majoritarian religious impulses of the region, contributing to common Orientalist stereotypes of Arab and Muslim political culture.1 The presence of several million indigenous Christians, the vast majority of whom represented ancient indigenous communities, was largely ignored among academics and journalists. The notable exception was Lebanon, where Christian participation in the drama of the civil conflict of the 1980s was often noted in the press and occasionally scrutinized in academia.

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Section: Good Intentions Pave the Roadmentioning

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Enabling Oblivion: Global Activism and the Erasure of Middle Eastern Christians

Rowe

2022

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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“…When religion is the 'official marker of difference', a fixed religious identity eclipses 'other modes of belonging' (Hurd 2015, p. 42). In the religious advocacy regime, all issues and events are problematised as religious, rather than recognising the complexities of all situations in historical, social, economic, political and geographic context (Bettiza 2019;Hurd 2015;Sullivan 2005;Mahmood 2015;McAlister 2019). For Bettiza:…”

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“…The identification of specific areas of concern as the remaining communist countries (Vietnam, North Korea, China and Cuba), and Muslim majority countries dovetailed with countries where the United States has ongoing concerns, leading to accusations that a focus on the persecution of Christians was overplayed and co-opted, in order to pursue other US foreign policy goals (Castelli 2007;Hertzke and Shah 2016;Hurd 2015, pp. ix-xii;McAlister 2018McAlister , 2019Moss 2013). The dominance of Christian actors in promoting IRF as activists, advocates, practitioners and drivers of policy in Congress, the OIRF, and the executive is a cause for concern from secularists seeking to re-establish the privatisation of religion, recontextualise understandings of religion away from a focus on belief to one which includes practice, community and the ethereal, and to prevent an exclusivist conceptualisation of Christian suffering overshadowing that experienced by other faiths, beliefs and none.…”

Section: Critique 2: Secularist Objectionsmentioning

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International Religious Freedom Promotion and US Foreign Policy

Marsden

2020

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The freedom to practice one’s religious belief is a fundamental human right and yet, for millions of people around the world, this right is denied. Yearly reports produced by the US State Department, United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, Open Doors International, Aid to the Church in Need and Release International reveal a disturbing picture of increased religious persecution across much of the world conducted at individual, community and state level conducted by secular, religious, terrorist and state actors. While religious actors both contribute to persecution of those of other faiths and beliefs and are involved in peace and reconciliation initiatives, the acceptance of the freedom to practice one’s faith, to disseminate that faith and to change one’s faith and belief is fundamental to considerations of the intersection of peace, politics and religion. In this article, I examine the political background of the United States’ promotion of international religious freedom, and current progress on advancing this under the Trump administration. International Religious Freedom (IRF) is contentious, and seen by many as the advancement of US national interests by other means. This article argues that through an examination of the accomplishments and various critiques of the IRF programme it is possible, and desirable, to discover what works, and where further progress needs to be made, in order to enable people around the world to enjoy freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

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Conclusions and Future Directions for Understanding Survey Methodology

Brenner

2020

Understanding Survey Methodology

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Evangelical Populist Internationalism and the Politics of Persecution

Cited by 9 publications

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Enabling Oblivion: Global Activism and the Erasure of Middle Eastern Christians

Enabling Oblivion: Global Activism and the Erasure of Middle Eastern Christians

International Religious Freedom Promotion and US Foreign Policy

Conclusions and Future Directions for Understanding Survey Methodology

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