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When I started college in 2008, I was a seventeen-year-old white Southern Baptist woman desperate to fit in at my liberal-leaning R1 university but also to find Christian friends. I…

Although united by broadly shared conservative theological principles and conservative political ideals, the homogeneity of the Christian Right is often overstated. Conservative Protestants, the largest component of the Christian Right…

Violence’s relationship to the sacred is one of the recurrent themes of religious studies.1 In the case of Christianity this theme has been regularly debated, given the core tension in…

The Evangelical Apocalypticism that accompanied the demographic and political ascendancy of Evangelical culture in the final decades of the twentieth century was grounded in a kind of conspiratorial framework —…

But it kind of came and went, and then I was wrong again, wrong again. I’m always wrong again. — Doug Jensen, Interview with the FBI, Friday, January 8, 2021…

In a 2006 New York Times article titled “Defunders of Liberty,” cultural historian Thomas Frank examined the sordid career of former lobbyist Jack Abramoff in light of his indictment and…

Its leering, bulbous eyes reflected the stark blue light of the full moon with their own jaundice glow. The gnarled head protruded from hunched shoulders and wisps of rancid red…

While literary critics have yet to theorize the relationship between post-1945 American literature and the white Christian Right in ways that are proportional to its political power and cultural influence,…

In 2017, author and former youth pastor Joshua Harris launched a Kickstarter campaign for a documentary with an unusual premise: he would travel across the country listening to people tell…

In 1891, Thomas Hardy’s Tess Durbeyfield expresses what was considered a primary function of the English novel in the nineteenth-century: to educate women with principles to live virtuously. In Tess…