Categories: American Religion, Dispensationalism, Evangelicalism, Fundamentalism, Religious Right – Posted on October 26, 2012 Matthew Avery Sutton, “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age.” Matthew Avery Sutton, “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age,” Journal of American History … Continue reading >Matthew Avery Sutton, “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age.”
Categories: American Religion, Evangelicalism, Religion/media, Theories of Religion – Posted on October 23, 2012 John Lardas Modern, “Secularism in Antebellum America” Steam engines. Conversions. Inmates. Tracts. Networks. Vibrations. A white whale. Modern’s exciting book on antebellum secularism wends through Moby-Dick, evangelical … Continue reading >John Lardas Modern, “Secularism in Antebellum America”
Categories: Visual Culture – Posted on September 23, 2012 Scene from the Duke-UNC rivalry, 1939 Like any good cultural historian, I spent part of my Sunday evening poking around the Library of Congress digital archive. … Continue reading >Scene from the Duke-UNC rivalry, 1939
Categories: Fundamentalism, Theories of Religion, Visual Culture – Posted on September 20, 2012 Ways of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence (repost) Haven’t we seen this before? When the so-called “Danish Cartoon Controversy” sparked protests around the world in 2005, American media … Continue reading >Ways of Seeing: On the Role of Images in “Religious” Violence (repost)