The Passion of the Slayer: On Buffy’s Twentieth, “The Big Bad” Is Still Out There
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. To the uninitiated, it sounds like a bad joke. That’s your…
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What’s Rome Got to Do With It?: Bannon, Burke, and Douthat’s “Trumpian” Pope
What should we make of the recent blockbuster revelations in the New York Times about…
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Trump is Helping the Economy… The Apocalypse Economy
The “end of the world” is great for this televangelist’s business.
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Tim LaHaye’s World: We’re Living In It
The whipcrack of agon has lashed America’s 2016, and Tim LaHaye has died. The extraordinarily…
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The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right
What led Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel to rent a refrigerated truck, arm himself with a few…
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Gluten-Phobia, Sacred Volcanoes, Undercover Atheists: The Best Religion and Science Writing of 2015
This year saw the launch of the Cubit: RD’s answer to the mainstream media’s coverage…
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Read MoreWhy the Evangelical Dissonance Over Obama Immigration Action?
According to a new PRRI poll, 60% of white evangelicals “support the goals of Obama’s…
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It’s The Apocalypse, Stupid: Understanding Christian Opposition to Obamacare, Civil Rights, New Deal and More
Even if we haven’t listened, every generation of evangelicals and fundamentalists says it: Their apocalyptic theology makes them more active not less.
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Syria and the American Apocalyptic Imagination: Isaiah 17:1 as “Evidence” of the End
“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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