Julie Ingersoll

Then finally we will look into the Christian nationalist religious cult Hegseth belongs to, and the extent to which its Crusader theology is behind the live stream public execution by firing squad Hegseth plans for the murderer of US soldiers.

Joining us is Julie Ingersoll, a scholar of religion and politics specializing in evangelical movements and their influence on American public life, including Christian reconstructionism, gender and abuse in evangelicalism, and religion and violence.

She's a professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida.

And her books include Evangelical Christian Women, War Stories in the Gender Battles, Building God's Kingdom, Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction, and Baptists

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Welcome back.

I'm Ian Masters, and this is Background Briefing, available 24-7 at backgroundbriefing.org. And joining us now, Julie Ingersoll, who's a scholar of religion and politics, specializing in evangelical movements and their influence on American public life, including Christian Reconstructionism, gender and abuse in evangelicalism, and religion and violence.

She's a professor of religious studies at the University of North Florida, And her books include Evangelical Christian Women, War Stories in the Gender Battles, Building God's Kingdom Inside the World of Christian Reconstruction, and Baptists and Methodists in America.

Tell us, tell my listeners about that.

So I spent a lot of time with Matthew Taylor and with Brad Onishi and Julie Ingersoll, some of the top religion scholars I could find to really unpack the theology behind religion.

the MAGA Christian nationalist movement, because as much as I think people want to dismiss extreme movements like this as just politics or power or money or something like that, I believe there is true religious belief animating it.

Matthew Taylor agrees with me.