Divided: White Christian Nationalism, MAGA and Where We Are Now
Summary
Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Episode 6 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Pamela Cooper-White.
Meet The Guest
Rev. Dr. Pamela Cooper-White
The Rev. Pamela Cooper-White, Ph.D., is an Episcopal priest and the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor Emerita of Psychology and Religion, and Dean and Vice President Emerita for Academic Affairs, at Union Theological Seminary, New York. A Fulbright senior scholar at the Freud Museum and University of Vienna Austria, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and an award-winning author, she has published 11 books including The Cry of Tamar: Violence against Women and the Church’s Response (now in 2nd ed.), Old and Dirty Gods: Religion, Antisemitism, and the Origins of Psychoanalysis, and Shared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling (in 2nd ed.). Her book The Psychology of Christian Nationalism, was awarded the INDIE independent publishers’ 2022 gold medal for social and political science. She has served in leadership for a number of scholarly societies and journals, and is a frequent public speaker both nationally and internationally.
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