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Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement

by Michael Barkun

rev. ed. Univ. of North Carolina. 1997. 290p. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780807846384. $21.95.

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The Christian Identity movement encompasses churches and individuals who espouse a white supremacist theology. Barkun's well-researched book offers historical perspective into the movement, beginning in Victorian England with the British Israelism movement, and then focuses on the ideologies of groups such as Aryan Nations and Posse Comitatus, both of which use Christianity to justify race war.

Reviewed by Rob Walsh , May 01, 2013

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