Mapping the End Times: American Evangelical Geopolitics and Apocalyptic Visions

by Jason Dittmer, Tristan Sturm

Overview

Over the last quarter-century, evangelicalism has become an important social and political force in modern America. This comprehensive study covers a range of evangelical ideas and practices, creating a unique appraisal of the movement and its geopolitical visions, and the wider impact of these on America and the world at large.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409488422
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/28/2012
Series:	Critical Geopolitics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Jason Dittmer, University College London, UK and Tristan Sturm, University of California Los Angeles, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction, TristanSturm, JasonDittmer; Part I Contesting the American Holy Land; Chapter 1 “What would Lee do?” Religion and the Moral Landscapes of Southern Nationalism in the United States, DavidJansson; Chapter 2 Contests over Latter-day Space, EthanYorgason; Chapter 3 Obama, Son of Perdition?, JasonDittmer; Part II American Evangelical Exceptionalism; Chapter 4 Apocalyptic Exceptionalism, SimonDalby; Chapter 5 The ‘New World Order’ and American Exceptionalism, MichaelBarkun; Chapter 6 Imagining Apocalyptic Geopolitics, TristanSturm; Part III Missionary Geopolitics; Chapter 7 The Problematic Synergy Between Evangelicals and the U.S. State in Sub-Saharan Africa, HannesGerhardt; Chapter 8 Reaching the Unreached in the 10/40 Window, Ju Hui JudyHan; Chapter 9 Between Armageddon and Hope, CarolynGallaher; Chapter 101 Afterword, PaulBoyer;