Featured faculty projects
André Gagné
Featured publication:
American Evangelicals for Trump: Dominion, Spiritual Warfare, and the End Times. (Studies in Religion). Milton Park, Milton: UK, Routledge, 2024 [trans. by L. Shanahan].
This book introduces the American Evangelical movement and the role it played in the support of Donald Trump. Specifically, it focuses on the Neocharismatic-Pentecostal (NCP) leaders, their beliefs, and their political strategies. The author examines why 81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump in 2016, and why he still received between 76% and 81% of their vote in 2020 despite losing the presidency. Additionally, the book discusses how NCP leaders are part of the Christian Right, a religious coalition with a political agenda centred on controversial issues such as anti-abortion activism, opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, and the protection of religious freedom.
Lucian Turcescu
Featured publication:
Churches, Memory and Justice in Post-communism Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 [co-editor Lavinia Stan].
This edited volume:
- Explains how civil society (groups such as religious denominations) contributes to transitional justice efforts to address and redress past dictatorial repression
- Ascertains the impact of state-led reckoning programs on religious communities and their members
- Renews the focus on the factors that determine the adoption (or rejection) of efforts to reckon with past human rights abuses in post-communism
