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Murali Balaji

Murali Balaji, Ph.D. is the founder and principal of Maruthi Education, a diversity and inclusion consulting firm that focuses on cultural competency. A Fulbright Specialist, former journalist, and author of several books, he has taught at Temple University, Penn State University, and Lincoln University, where he served as Chair of the Department of Mass Communications.

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Religion Dispatches

Trump's Remark to Evangelicals is Straight Out of Global Authoritarian Playbook

Trump’s fealty to evangelical leaders may be sowing the seeds of a Christian autocracy that can easily be replicated by a future GOP president.
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Trump Administration Is Not-So-Subtly Christianizing Foreign Policy and Aid

Under previous administrations, the U.S. government—particularly foreign aid and arms—did not directly intervene to promote the narrative of global Christian victimhood.
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SCOTUS Decision Changes the Meaning of Civil Religion in America

Under Trump, civil religion has been broadly redefined to mean that the United States is exclusively shaped by and for white Christians.
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