The deliverance of the administrative state: deep state conspiracism, charismatic demonology, and the post-truth politics of American Christian nationalism
This article uses discourse analysis to explore the intersection of spiritual warfare demonology and Christian nationalism among Trump-supporting neo-charismatic evangelicals. Analysing public materials produced during and after the 2016 US presidential campaign, it demonstrates how demonologies ope...
| Auteur principal: | |
|---|---|
| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
| Vérifier la disponibilité: | HBZ Gateway |
| Journals Online & Print: | En cours de chargement...
|
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Publié: |
Routledge
[2020]
|
| Dans: |
Religion
Année: 2020, Volume: 50, Numéro: 4, Pages: 696-719 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
USA
/ Mouvement évangélique
/ Mouvement charismatique
/ Conservatisme
/ Libéralisme
/ Démonisation
/ Vérité
/ Contrevérité
/ Abolition des frontières
|
| Classifications IxTheo: | CG Christianisme et politique CH Christianisme et société KBQ Amérique du Nord ZC Politique en général |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
post-truth politics
B Christian Nationalism B Spiritual warfare |
| Accès en ligne: |
Volltext (Resolving-System) |
| Résumé: | This article uses discourse analysis to explore the intersection of spiritual warfare demonology and Christian nationalism among Trump-supporting neo-charismatic evangelicals. Analysing public materials produced during and after the 2016 US presidential campaign, it demonstrates how demonologies operate discursively to categorise, comprehend, and contest understandings of American identity and destiny. Situating spiritual warfare demonology in relation to narratives of ‘post-truth politics’ as the destabilisation of neoliberal consensus reality, the article explores how charismatic evangelicals position Trump’s election as a divine assault on a demoniac status quo, epitomised in the conspiratorial figure of the ‘Deep State.’ Examining demonologies of the ‘state’ and ‘border’ as joint arenas of epistemic and societal contestation, the article shows how spiritual warfare discourses seek to (re)define sociocultural notions of truth and falsity and thereby (de)legitimise specific gendered, sexualised, and racialised forms of being and belonging. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Religion
|
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2020.1810817 |