TY - JOUR A1 - Byrd, Dustin J. A1 - Siebert, Rudolf J: T1 - Jerome Braun, Democratic Culture and Moral Character. A Study in Culture and Personality JF - Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 3 (No. 2, August 2015), pp. 223-227. Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Byrd, Dustin J. T1 - The Dark Charisma of Donald Trump. Political Psychology and the MAGA Movement, Kalamazoo, Michigan (Ekpyrosis Press), 2023, 490 pp. Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Byrd, Dustin J. T1 - Can religion be rescued in the 21st century? On Erich Fromm’s religious humanism in an age of authoritarian populism JF - Journal of Psychosocial Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. xx; DOI: 10.1332/14786737Y2024D000000027 N2 - In the recent years, much of the West has seen the rise of right-wing forms of authoritarian populism and their attacks on democracy and the multicultural societies. In many cases, such movements have recruited Christian traditions, ideas, and symbols into their nativist agenda. Nevertheless, the aspects of Christianity that have been functionalised have been primarily the ‘exterior’ of religion, wherein the humanistic core have all been neglected. On the basis of the Erich Fromm's understanding of the world religions' humanistic core, and informed by the Frankfurt School, I demonstrate the hollowness of the right-wing movements adoption of religion, and argue for a new form of humanistic-religious ecumenicism on the basis of the shared values, principles, and ideals that rest at the heart of religion and humanistic philosophy. Y1 - 2024 ER -