The Trumpocalypse: One Year Down, 999 to Go
The Trumpocalypse began a year ago today. That means it’s time to check in with…
Read MoreThe Trumpocalypse began a year ago today. That means it’s time to check in with…
Read MoreRevelations abound. Hurricanes, earthquakes, and wildfires crowd the news, alongside genocide, terrorism, and rogue state…
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Read MoreIn the flurry of coverage surrounding the evangelical Christian voting bloc that overwhelmingly supported Donald Trump,…
Read MoreDisaster has a clarifying glamour. It promises to highlight virtue and reveal iniquity. Therein lies the problem.
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Read MoreThe 2013 election of Pope Francis marked a number of firsts for the Catholic Church:…
Read MoreEven if we haven’t listened, every generation of evangelicals and fundamentalists says it: Their apocalyptic theology makes them more active not less.
Read More“Religious enthusiasm” or the American apocalyptic can be read as modes of the disaffection of the citizen in a time of political delegitimation. We often see this “religion” taking shape most clearly when we focus all the way down, to the odd hybrid of melancholy and triumphalism in these assertions about Damascus.
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