Platforming Extremism: How Social Media Reshapes Christian Nationalism

Mark Douglas (Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary) will deliver the second talk in the 2025 Scott Lecture Series, which invites a variety of scholars to explore the theme of Christian nationalism. 

Christian nationalism does more than rely on social media to promote its message; it is getting changed by social media in ways that make it both more difficult to address to and (slightly) easier to dismantle.  One set of resources that may prove effective in dismantling it as it is being changed are those related to developments in theologies of parody and camp. This lecture explores Christian nationalism, the impacts of social media on it, and how parody and camp may shape responses to it.