American Book Club, October 2025
30 09 2025
On 2 October, the next meeting of the American Club will take place – a series of meetings organised by the American Studies Center at the UW and Czarne Publishing House.
A dense network of influence has enveloped America: leaders of evangelical churches, activists working on their behalf, businessmen, lobbyists and think tank employees. The goal? To transform the United States into a religious state.
During the third meeting of the American Club, we will discuss Katherine Stewart’s “The Power Worshippers” (translated by Jarek Westermark). Dr Ludmiła Janion and Prof. Stanisław Obirek from the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw will take part in the discussion about the book.
- When? 2 October at 6 p.m.
- Where? Czarnego Bookshop, 45A Jana Pawła II Avenue, corner of Nowolipki Street
Christian nationalists, supported by billionaires, are shaping mainstream American politics today. Their demands have reached Congress and the White House. They demand influence in various areas of social life: a ban on abortion, permission to beat children, and restrictions on minority rights.
Stewart travels across the United States from California to North Carolina. He interviews participants in pro-life marches, attends far-right conventions, and tracks money flows and international alliances. He also delves into history, profiling the first evangelical radicals and tracing their long march through the institutions.
Dr Ludmiła Janion – cultural studies scholar, assistant professor at the American Studies Centre at the University of Warsaw, member of the Gender/Sexuality Laboratory. She lectures in American Studies and in the newly opened Gender and Sexuality programme. Her academic interests focus on the cultural and social changes of the 1990s in Poland and Europe, sexuality studies and queer theory. She is currently working on a project on the neoliberalisation of masculinity.
Prof. Stanisław Obirek, PhD – lecturer at the University of Warsaw’s American Studies Centre. He researches the place of religion in contemporary culture and is interested in interfaith dialogue, the consequences of the Holocaust, and ways of overcoming religious, civilisational, and cultural conflicts. In August 2025, he launched a YouTube channel called “Obirek w samo południe w niedzielę” (Obirek at High Noon on Sunday), which is available at https://www.youtube.com/@stanis%C5%82awmicha%C5%82obirek
The American Club, organised in cooperation with the American Studies Centre at the University of Warsaw and Czarne Publishing House, is a series of meetings devoted to fiction and non-fiction books. They provide a deeper understanding of the social, political, and cultural processes taking place in the United States.
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