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American Evangelicals And The European Union, Paul R. Koch

Faculty Scholarship – Economics

This paper seeks to explore the potential reasons for the antagonistic sentiments that are held by many Protestant evangelicals, in the United States, towards the European Union. The possible causal factors include the following:

1) The legacy of anti-internationalism among evangelicals, dating back to the debate over American membership in the League of Nations almost 100 years ago;

2) The level of attraction to the current wave of “populist” politics and economics;

3) The aversion of politically conservative American evangelicals to the perception of Europe as a “socialist’ continent;

4) The negative portrayal of the European Union, as an instrument …