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Religion of Fear - The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
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Religion of Fear - The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism (Hardcover)
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Conservative evangelicalism has transformed American politics,
disseminating a sometimes fearful message not just through
conventional channels, but through subcultures and alternate modes
of communication. Within this world is a "Religion of Fear," a
critical impulse that dramatizes cultural and political conflicts
and issues in frightening ways that serve to contrast "orthodox"
behaviors and beliefs with those linked to darkness, fear, and
demonology. Jason Bivins offers close examinations of several
popular evangelical cultural creations including the Left Behind
novels, church-sponsored Halloween "Hell Houses," sensational comic
books, especially those disseminated by Jack Chick, and anti-rock
and -rap rhetoric and censorship. Bivins depicts these fascinating
and often troubling phenomena in vivid (sometimes lurid) detail and
shows how they seek to shape evangelical cultural identity.
As the "Religion of Fear" has developed since the 1960s, Bivins
sees its message moving from a place of relative marginality to one
of prominence. What does it say about American public life that
such ideas of fearful religion and violent politics have become
normalized? Addressing this question, Bivins establishes links and
resonances between the cultural politics of evangelical pop, the
activism of the New Christian Right, and the political exhaustion
facing American democracy.
Religion of Fear is a significant contribution to our
understanding of the new shapes of political religion in the United
States, of American evangelicalism, of the relation of religion and
the media, and the link between religious pop culture and politics.
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