Is America's march towards holy empire inevitable? If not, what is it contingent on? We consider these questions as we wrap the course.

We examine the growth and alliance of Christian and Muslim fundamentalism in the late twentieth century and the way this changed the Republican Party.

In this episode, we look at the curious story of Willard Cleon Skousen and his profound posthumous impact of America's path towards holy empire.

We examine the convergence between normative American culture and Mormon and fundamentalist cultures due to the exigencies of the Cold War.

This section of the course covers America's rise to global hegemon and the intersection of that phenomenon with a new understanding of individual rights.

We begin our look at how Mormonism has made a unique contribution to American ideas of holy empire and place it in the context of the larger demographic shifts in the early 19th century US. 

The show discusses the unique doctrines of Calvinism and how this particular Christian movement laid the groundwork for liberalism and for white settler states like the US and South Africa.

We continue our discussion with the rise of the medieval replica city and the way that holy empire was bolstered by typological thought.

We follow the emergence of the first holy empires the Byzantine, Ummayid, Abassid and Holy Roman empires and compare it to the trajectory of Christianity in India and Aksum.

We continue our narrative, examining the evolution of politics and the incipient category of religion as we look at the emergence of henotheistic states.