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Tornado God - American Religion and Violent Weather (Hardcover)
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Tornado God - American Religion and Violent Weather (Hardcover)
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One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was
severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of
storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as
superstition and predicted they would pass away as humans became
more scientifically and theologically sophisticated. But in
America, scientific and theological hubris came face-to-face with
the tornado, nature's most violent windstorm. Striking the United
States more than any other nation, tornadoes have consistently
defied scientists' efforts to unlock their secrets. Meteorologists
now acknowledge that even the most powerful computers will likely
never be able to predict a tornado's precise path. Similarly,
tornadoes have repeatedly brought Americans to the outer limits of
theology, drawing them into the vortex of such mysteries as how to
reconcile suffering with a loving God and whether there is
underlying purpose or randomness in the universe. In this
groundbreaking history, Peter Thuesen captures the harrowing drama
of tornadoes, as clergy, theologians, meteorologists, and ordinary
citizens struggle to make sense of these death-dealing tempests. He
argues that, in the tornado, Americans experience something that is
at once culturally peculiar (the indigenous storm of the national
imagination) and religiously primal (the sense of awe before an
unpredictable and mysterious power). He also shows that, in an era
of climate change, the weather raises the issue of society's
complicity in natural disasters. In the whirlwind, Americans
confront the question of their own destiny-how much is
self-determined and how much is beyond human understanding or
control.
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