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Embattled America

The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion

By: Jason C. Bivins

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Embattled America

The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion

By: Jason C. Bivins

Embattled America' is a reinterpretation of conservative evangelical persecution claims. The centrality of such claims to American life is widely known. This book, however, argues against standard approaches to them. It interprets a range of controversial subjects and persons surrounding embattled religion, from the Obama-to-Trump era: Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Wallbuilders, anti-sharia legislation and birthers. The lesson of each episode is linked not to any iteration of religion but to a democratic fundament that is obscured in the obsession with controversial religion.--

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0197623506

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Religion of Fear

The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism

By: Jason Bivins

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The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism

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Conservative evangelicalism has transformed American politics working not just through conventional channels, but through subcultures and alternate modes of communication. This text is a significant introduction to our understanding of the new shapes of political religion, and of American evangelicalism.

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0199867151

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Spirits Rejoice!

Jazz and American Religion

By: Jason Bivins

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Jazz and American Religion

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Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and American music, and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped" --Dust jacket flap.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190230916

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The Fracture of Good Order

Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics

By: Jason C. Bivins

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Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics

By: Jason C. Bivins

Whether picketing outside abortion clinics, speaking out at school board meetings, or attending anti-death penalty vigils, many Americans have publicly opposed local, state, or federal government policies on the basis of their religious convictions. In The Fracture of Good Order, Jason Bivins examines the growing phenomenon of Christian protest against civil authority and political order in the United States. He argues that since the 1960s, there has been a proliferation of religious activism against what protesters perceive as government's excessive power and lack of moral principle. Calling this phenomenon "Christian antiliberalism," Bivins finds at its center a belief that American politics is based on a liberal tradition that gives government too much social and economic influence and threatens the practice of a religious life. Focusing on the Catholic pacifism of Daniel and Philip Berrigan and the Jonah House resistance community, the Christian Right's homeschooling movement, and the evangelical Sojourners community, Bivins combines religious studies with political theory to explore the common ground shared by these disparate groups. Despite their vast ideological and institutional differences, Bivins argues, these activists justify their actions in overtly religious terms based on a rejection of basic tenets of the American political system. Analyzing the widespread dissatisfaction with the conventional forms of political identity and affiliation that characterize American civic life today, Bivins sheds light on the complex relations between religion and democratic society.

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UNC Press Books

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0807861502

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9780807861509

Religion of Fear

The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism

By: Jason C Bivins

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The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism

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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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0199887691

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Spirits Rejoice!

Jazz and American Religion

By: Jason C. Bivins

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Jazz and American Religion

By: Jason C. Bivins

In Spirits Rejoice! Jason Bivins explores the relationship between American religion and American music, and the places where religion and jazz have overlapped. Much writing about jazz tends toward glorified discographies or impressionistic descriptions of the actual sounds. Rather than providing a history, or series of biographical entries, Spirits Rejoice! takes to heart a central characteristic of jazz itself and improvises, generating a collection of themes, pursuits, reoccurring foci, and interpretations. Bivins riffs on interviews, liner notes, journals, audience reception, and critical commentary, producing a work that argues for the centrality of religious experiences to any legitimate understanding of jazz, while also suggesting that jazz opens up new interpretations of American religious history. Bivins examines themes such as musical creativity as related to specific religious traditions, jazz as a form of ritual and healing, and jazz cosmologies and metaphysics. Spirits Rejoice! connects Religious Studies to Jazz Studies through thematic portraits, and a vast number of interviews to propose a new, improvisationally fluid archive for thinking about religion, race, and sound in the United States. Bivins's conclusions explore how the sound of spirits rejoicing challenges not only prevailing understandings of race and music, but also the way we think about religion. Spirits Rejoice! is an essential volume for any student of jazz, American religion, or American culture.

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Religion of Fear

The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism

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Embattled America

The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion

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The Rise of Anti-Politics and America's Obsession with Religion

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The Fracture of Good Order

Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics

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Christian Antiliberalism and the Challenge to American Politics

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