Does the United States need a religious left?

Nadia Marzouki, Research fellow at the CNRS at CERI, currently working on a project concerning progressive ecumenical alliances and interfaith movements in the United States that campaign for social justice and against racism, and reject the exploitation of religious values by far-right religious and political leaders.

She has just published an article entitled Does the United Kingdom need a religious left? which is available online.

"Amid the global rise of the Christian right, some intellectuals and politicians have emphasized the need to affirm a stronger religious left in the United States. The Democrats’ downfall in 2016, this argument goes, has shown the limits of ideological platforms that ignore matters of faith and belonging and stick to technocratic and secular jargon. From this perspective, in order to win the culture war against right-wing evangelicals, progressives urgently need to include religion in their strategy…."