Director: Thomas Johnson Co-author: Philippe Gonzalez Producer: Artline Films Paris
Description:
How a religious movement became a political weapon. Evangelical Christianity has extended to all spheres of society, bringing leaders like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro to power. From the Cold War to the present day, Evangelicals, From Faith to Power traces the extraordinary rise of the movement on all continents, mapping its growing influence in religious, social and political arenas.
Biography:
Thomas Johnson is an acclaimed documentary film director and producer. Amongst others, he directed The Battle of Chernobyl, In the Wake of Stalin, Atomic Alert, 30 Years Of War In The Name Of God, and The Hand and the Spirit. He founded M Way Films with Isi Harder to produce creative documentary films oriented towards the sharing of knowledge, arts and culture that tell stories and participate beyond noise and illusions to the emergence of an age of contribution.
Philippe Gonzalez is a senior lecturer and researcher in sociology of communication and culture at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. He is a specialist of evangelical Protestantism.
