![Flashback – What Political Theology Has To Do With Race In America (David True)](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Red-and-black-handrpint-600x600.jpg)
When we understand that the Nixon campaign combined a call to law and order with the so-called Southern Strategy, it becomes clear that white sympathies were cultivated and that blacks were made to play the part of the enemy. Nixon’s presidency was a take-no-prisoners form of democracy mixed with demagoguery.
![The Political Theology Syllabi Project: Devin Singh](https://politicaltheology.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Connecticut_Hall-600x600.jpg)
This course was conceived as a way to introduce undergraduates to the conversation about religion and politics in Western tradition. I wanted to give them a broad historical overview, with in-depth selections or snapshots to get at ways the relation between religious and political spheres has been conceived in different historical moments.
By Guest Post