“God Bless the Red, White, and Blue”

Religious nationalism is a networked political project. It moves across geographies, boundaries, and borders in variegated forms that are linked by ideological convictions and the need to build alliances with disparate communities to advance political and social aims. As such, it demands that we look at more than just the bureaucratic, state-level forms of nationalism; it demands that we take seriously the globalizing flows of nationalistic thought, especially in digital spaces, through which political discontents exchange ideas, craft ideological partnerships, and mobilize local communities to (re)act. As a contribution to understanding the theoretical concept of Christian nationalism as situated in the global histories of Christian power, this chapter considers contemporary iterations of Christian nationalism in the United States alongside the networked geopolitical links these projects have to the enduring expressions of Russian religious nationalism(s). Along the way, I pay close attention to how moral economies have provided ideological, financial, and political couplings or points of convergence to advance the project of Christian nationalism in the United States and Russia in culturally different yet conversant ways. As such, Christian nationalism should not be thought of as uniquely American, but rather as a legacy political movement coming out of the histories of geo-imperialism and Christian colonization—expressions of which can be found in a variety of Christian nationalisms across the globe, including in the Russian context.